Understanding terrorism: challenges,perspectives and issues/
Gus Martin
- 4th ed.
- New Delhi: SAGE, 2013.
- I-21p.
Terrorism : a conceptual review -- Terrorism : first impressions -- The nature of the beast : defining terrorism -- Beginnings : the causes of terrorism -- The terrorists -- Terror from above : terrorism by the state -- Terror from below : terrorism by dissidents -- Violence in the name of the faith : religious terrorism -- Violent ideologies : terrorism from left and right -- Terrorist spillovers : international terrorism -- Emerging terrorist environments : gender-selective political violence and criminal dissident terrorism -- The terrorist trade and counterterrorism -- Tools of the trade : tactics and targets of terrorists -- The information battleground : terrorist violence and the role of the media -- The American case : terrorism in the United States -- Securubg the homeland -- Counterterrorism : the options -- A new era : homeland security -- What next? the future of terrorism.