The dramatic terrorist attacks of 9/11 highlighted significant gaps in research on the topic as governments, community groups, social service agencies and law enforcement agencies were forced to respond without any evidence-based guidance on best practices for tactics, strategies, and policy development.
The essays selected for this volume demonstrate that transnational terrorism is now a thriving area of study and display the breadth and depth of scholarship that has recently been published. The research draws attention to global patterns of transnational terrorism; highlights various structural and cultural explanations; provides an overview of some of the ways that terrorism impacts society; and discusses strategies used to effectively respond to transnational terrorism. This volume, which is of interest to academics, policymakers and practitioners, provides a repository of some of the best contemporary research in this field.
Contents: Introduction; Part I Patterns of International Terrorism: The four waves of modern terrorism, David C. Rapoport; Al Qaeda, trends in terrorism, and future potentialities: an assessment, Bruce Hoffman; After 9/11: is it all different now?, Walter Enders and Todd Sandler; Transnational terrorism hot spots: identification and impact evaluation, Alex Braithwaite and Quan Li; Trajectories of terrorism: attack patterns of foreign groups that have targeted the United States, 1970-2004, Gary LaFree, Sue-Ming Yang and Martha Crenshaw; The nature of the beast: terrorist organizational structures and lethality, Victor Asal and R. Karl Rethemeyer. Part II Causes of Transnational Terrorism: Ideologies of violence: the social origins of Islamist and Leftist transnational terrorism, Kristopher K. Robison, Edward M. Crenshaw and J. Craig Jenkins; Does democracy promote or reduce transnational terrorist incidents?, Quan Li; On ethnic conflict and the origins of transnational terrorism, Atin Basuchoudhary and William F. Shughart II; Incubators of terror: do failed and failing states promote transnational terrorism?, James A. Piazza; Economic globalization, Quan Li and Drew Schaub; Education, poverty and terrorism: is there a causal connection?, Alan B. Krueger and Jitka Maleckova. Part III Impacts of Transnational Terrorism: The impact of transnational terrorism on US foreign direct investment, Walter Enders, Adolfo Sachsida and Todd Sandler; Terrorism and the world economy, Alberto Abadie and Javier Gardeazabal; Terrorism-induced structural shifts in financial risk: airline stocks in the aftermath of the September 11th terror attacks, Konstantinos Drakos; Assessing the impact of the September 11 terrorist attacks on US airline demand, Harumi Ito and Darin Lee. Part IV Responding to Transnational Terrorism: A theoretical analysis of transnational terrorism, Todd Sandler, John T. Tschirhart and Jon Cauley; Patterns of transnational terrorism, 1970-1999: alternative time-series estimates, Walter Enders and Todd Sandler; Terrorism shocks: domestic versus transnational responses, Todd Sandler; Collective versus unilateral responses to terrorism. Todd Sandler; Strategies and practical measures to strengthen the capacity of prosecution services dealing with transnational organized crime, terrorism and corruption, Yvon Dandurand; Name index.
Steven M. Chermak is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, USA. Joshua D. Freilich is the Executive Officer (Director) of the Criminal Justice Ph.D. program and a member of the Criminal Justice Department at John Jay College, the City University of New York, USA. David C. Rapoport, Bruce Hoffman, Walter Enders, Todd Sandler, Alex Braithwaite, Quan Li, Gary LaFree, Sue-Ming Yang, Martha Crenshaw, Victor Asal, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Kristopher K. Robison, Edward M. Crenshaw, J. Craig Jenkins, Atin Basuchoudhary, William F. Shughart II, James A. Piazza, Drew Schaub, Alan B. Krueger, Jitka Maleckova, Adolfo Sachsida, Alberto Abadie, Javier Gardeazabal, Konstantinos Drakos, Harumi Ito, Darin Lee, John T. Tschirhart, Jon Cauley, Yvon Dandurand.
