- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
2018.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- vii, 261 pages ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781250142511
- Introduction: Terrorism and Its Future
- The Changes Wrought by the Fourth Wave
- Part I. History and the Invention of Terrorism
- 1. The History and Emergence of Modern Terrorism
- 2. Writings on Tyranny and the Origins of the Philosophy of the Bomb
- Russia's Terrorism as a Doctrine
- 3. Turkey, India, and the Russian Example
- Terrorism by Indian Nationalists and Former Pacifists
- 4. Propaganda by the Deed
- Arms and the Class Struggle: Spain and the United States
- 1. Terrorism and Nationalism
- 5. The Philosophy of the Bomb and the Far Right
- The Right Wing Elsewhere
- The History of Terrorism
- 6. Final Remarks on the History of Terrorism
- Part 2. Contemporary Terrorism
- 7. The New Face of Terrorism
- Why Was IS Successful?
- 8. A Truncated History of IS
- The Iraq War and the Emergence of Al-Qaeda in Iraq
- How Iraqi Politics Created Islamic State
- The Arab Spring, Al-Qaeda, and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
- The Jabhat Al-Nusra Threat, the Khorasan Group, and the Co-Optation of Islamic State's Credibility
- Stymied Iraqi Reforms, Islamic, State's Decline Since 2014, and the Future of Terrorism
- 9. Beyond Islamic State
- Religion and a Globalized Decentralized Ideology
- Al-Qaeda and Islamic State: Battle of Egos in the Process of Final Victory
- The (Not) Forever War: What Is Beyond Islamic State?
- 10. The Battlefields of the Future
- Yemen: A Regional Cold War Fought Through Proxies
- Libya: A Mosaic Civil War
- Afghanistan: A Legacy of Failed State Reconstruction
- Where to Next?
- 11. Terrorism in Europe and in the United States
- The Lone-Wolf Phenomenon
- The Foreign Fighter Flow
- The Islamic State Threat to Europe
- The Terrorism Threat in the United States
- Terrorism Going Forward?
- Part 3. Reflections on Terrorism
- 12. The Culture of Modern Terrorism
- IS and the Nature of Evil
- Jihad Cool
- 13. Terrorism Misinterpreted
- Terrorism and the Psychiatrists
- 14. Economic Explanations of Terrorism
- Terrorist Organizations as Industrial Activity
- Why Is Terrorism Effective?: The Club Goods Theory
- Terrorism as Theater and the Macro/Micro Divide Within Conflicts
- The Economics of Terrorism
- 15. Religious Violence and Terrorism
- Suicide Terrorism
- Refugees
- 16. Terrorism: The Future
- Lessons from the Current Wave of Terrorism
- When Terrorism Prevails?
- So What About This Current Wave of Terrorism?
- Epilogue: Terrorism Under President Trump
- Acknowledgments
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