ABSTRACT
At the beginning of this volume we noted that, at first glance, terrorism and party politics seem to have little in common. For many observers, terrorist violence, whether defined as criminal activity, a romantic adventure or a form of warfare, is a kind of anti-politics. Its practitioners operate outside the political arena, indeed they operate outside the bounds of civilized society. In fact, this reputation provides terrorism with a kind of allure, a fascination, especially among intellectuals, that Dostoyevsky noted more than a century ago.1
