ABSTRACT
Since 9/11 there has been an unprecedented increase in academic interest in terrorism.According to the British newspaper The Guardian (2008), only a mere 100 academic articles focused on terrorism in 2001. By 2007 this had grown to over 2,300 per year.As Ranstorp notes in his review of terrorism research since 9/11:
Prior to 9/11, the size of the academic community interested in and committed to building a sustained body of knowledge remained resiliently very small but academically diverse
. . . Literally overnight with 9/11 the field of terrorism studies catapulted from the relative periphery into the absolute vortex of academic interest and policy concern worldwide.
