Inside Terrorism

Bruce Hoffman

Published by Columbia University Press 2017

Inside Terrorism

Bruce Hoffman

In the series Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare

https://doi.org/10.7312/hoff17476

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Bruce Hoffman is a professor at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and director of the Center for Security Studies and the Security Studies Program. He is also a senior fellow at the U.S. Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center and a visiting professor of terrorism studies at St. Andrews University. Hoffman is the editor of the Columbia University Press series Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare, coeditor of The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's Death (Columbia, 2014), and author of Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917–1947 (2015).

Reviews

Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 and The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State:
The classic work from the dean of terrorism studies. No one who cares about the struggle of our time should miss this book.

Martha Crenshaw, Stanford University, coauthor of Countering Terrorism: No Simple Solutions:
Bruce Hoffman has produced a most welcome new and updated edition of his classic work, a book that provides an essential foundation for understanding the rapidly changing contours of terrorism. The third edition of Inside Terrorism is as timely, relevant, and analytically probing as ever.

Richard English, author of Does Terrorism Work?: A History:
A vitally important book. Bruce Hoffman has for decades been one of the world's greatest scholars of terrorism, and this new edition of his classic study is impressively wide-ranging and authoritative. Covering key issues such as definition, historical evolution, and internationalization, it also addresses thematic subjects such as religious terrorism and suicide attacks. The book serves as a valuable corrective to the amnesia of so much recent work on terrorism, and it will offer readers powerful insights for many years.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Preface to the Third Edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1. Defining Terrorism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The End of Empire and the Origins of Con temporary Terrorism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. The Internationalization of Terrorism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
4. Religion and Terrorism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
5. Suicide Terrorism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
6. The Old Media, Terrorism, and Public Opinion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
7. The New Media, Terrorism, and the Shaping of Global Opinion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
8. The Modern Terrorist Mind- Set: Tactics, Targets, Tradecraft, and Technologies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
9. Terrorism Today and Tomorrow I: Force Multipliers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
10. Terrorism Today and Tomorrow II: New and Continuing Challenges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Illustrations
- Other: 22 b&w photographs

eBook

Published: August 6, 2018
ISBN: 9780231544894