Understanding terrorism : challenges, perspectives, and issues / Gus Martin.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martin, Gus (Clarence Augustus)
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [2003], ©2003.
Subjects:
Terrorism.
Physical Description:1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • An introduction to terrorism
  • The nature of the beast : defining terrorism
  • Beginnings : the causes of terrorism
  • Terror from above : state terrorism
  • Terror from below : dissident terrorism
  • Class struggle and national liberation : the terrorist Left
  • Race and order : the terrorist Right
  • For the faith and profit : religious and criminal terrorism
  • Terrorist spillovers : international terrorism
  • Tools of the trade : tactics and targets of terrorists
  • The Role of the media
  • Terrorism in the United States
  • Responding to terror : the options
  • What next? the future of terrorism.