Terrorism: The fourth or religious wave

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David C. Rapoport
Taylor & Francis, 2006 - 545 pages
This collection takes a historical approach in reprinting essential scholarship and source materials on the history of modern rebel or non-state terror.
The four volumes are arranged around the four distinct "waves" of terrorism.
Each wave is characterized by distinctive features, most specifically, purposes, organizational forms and tactics, which in turn shape the relationship between terrorist groups with each other as well as on a national and international level. In addition to articles in academic journals, the collection also includes discussions by participants in each wave as well as statements by participating groups and government documents. Principle events in terrorist history also receive special attention; for example, the first terrorist act, the assassination that provoked World War I and the 9/11 attacks on the US.
 

Contents

Cultural narrative and the motivation of the terrorist
31
Why is America the primary target? Terrorism as globalized
49
Introduction to Jihad
63
the domestication of policymaking
80
Terrorism and the media
94
Suicide attacks or martyrdom operations in contemporary
115
The strategic logic of suicide terrorism
143
public support market share
183
Declaration of war against the Americans occupying
271
Jihad against Jews and Crusaders
295
Joining the jihad
321
We have some planes
354
Southeast Asia as the second front in the war against
418
Stumbling into the Islamic world
447
The nature and use of intelligence and terrorism
462
The laws of war
485

Aum Shinrikyô and the road
212
Leaderless resistance
242
Lone operators and weapons of mass destruction
258
the limits of homeland
518
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