In this book, the author finds that current counter-terrorism strategies have yielded limited results in addressing the threat posed by terrorist g...

Terrorism in East Africa has remained a concern of the United States since 1998, when al Qaeda bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. As part...

The story of the way the FBI was forced to change its methods of operation to capture Theodore Kaczynski, the notorious Unabomber, provides a fasci...

This book explores the drivers of violent extremism, with special reference to the Muslim world in the past three decades. This book summarises wha...

The opening chapter helps readers to understand the ethnocentric discourses revolving around the would-be supremacy of the US and the UK â€and Angl...

Following terrorist attacks against the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983, the U.S. Department of State began an embassy construction progra...

ISIS started as rebels under the US occupation of Iraq. They grew by ravaging Libya and Syria. Their backers are Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and they ...

Dennis Altman’s long obsession with the United States began when he went there as a graduate student during Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency. His early ...

The USA Patriot Act passed in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. It flows from a consultation draft circulated by the Department of Ju...

A vigilante group is an armed private group that has taken the law into its own hands or that has the announced potential of doing so. There are qu...

A recent series of terrorist attacks, the uncovering of a large terrorist network, and a string of continuing regional conflicts have raised an awa...

This book provides insightful recommendations for the Department of Defense against perpetrators of "targeted violence" -- those individuals who co...

Sadly, the threat of violent extremism in America is nothing new. Throughout our history, misguided groups, including international and domestic te...

This comprehensive volume analyzes the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and in the way they are narrated and represented. Ever since...

This collection of essays represents a sample of the work carried out on the various urgent issues arising from the contemporary "war in terror" by...

On September 11, 2001, this country suffered the most devastating terrorist attacks ever experienced on our soil. The series of co-ordinated attack...

On 12 October 2002, Bali seemed to crumble overnight, when hundreds of tourists and locals who were enjoying themselves became victims of two horri...

Firmly embedded in the Islamic religious thought, practice and ethos, jihad (colloquially, 'Islamic holy war') is far from being an anachronism. In...

The book is an attempt in chronicling and analysing international developments from a non-western perspective. It scrutinises the prevailing discou...

News about terrorism seems to dominate the world media, whether in Ireland, the Mideast or in the United States. The latest communications confirm ...

On 4 July 1976 over a hundred hostages, held at gunpoint in Entebbe, Uganda, were freed in a spectacular rescue operation and flown to safety in Is...

This is a gripping account of the famous operation in Entebbe, Uganda on 4 July 1976. While the nation of Israel, and Jews throughout the world, st...