ABSTRACT

First Published in 1991. This book includes several contributions to the new look in terrorism research, including a history of terrorism that reaches back two thousand years, an examination of the life-cycle of terrorist groups that have come and gone since World War II, and a new theory of the stages by which political protest becomes political violence and terrorism.

chapter |5 pages

Editor's Introduction

Terrorism Research and Public Policy

chapter |28 pages

Terrorism and Military Theory

An Historical Perspective

chapter |16 pages

Terror, Totem, and Taboo

Reporting on a Report

chapter |19 pages

The Process of Delegitimation

Towards a Linkage Theory of Political Terrorism

chapter |14 pages

Terrorism, Research and Public Policy

An Experience, Some Thoughts

chapter |9 pages

Worlds in Collision, Worlds in Collusion

The Uneasy Relationship Between the Policy Community and the Academic Community