An introduction to terrorism research

Research on Terrorism: Trends, Achievements and Failures

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-29

  Silke, Andrew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84906589880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203500972     Document Type: Editorial

References (15)

1. Brian Jenkins, 'The Organization Men: Anatomy of a terrorist attack', in James Hoge and Gideon Rose (eds), How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War (Oxford: PublicAffairs, 2001) pp. 1-14.
2. Alex Schmid and Albert Jongman, Political Terrorism, 2nd edn (Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1988).
3. James Poland, Understanding Terrorism: Groups, Strategies, and Responses (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1988).
4. J. Shafritz, E. Gibbons and G. Scott, Almanac of Modern Terrorism (Oxford: Facts on File, 1991).
5. As quoted in Adams Roberts, 'Can We Define Terrorism?', Oxford Today; see http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/archive/0102/14_2/04.shtml, 7 April 2003.
6. Ariel Merari, 'Academic Research and Government Policy on Terrorism', Terrorism and P olitical Violence, 3/1 (1991), pp. 88-102.
7. Martha Crenshaw, 'How Terrorists Think: What Psychology Can Contribute to Understanding Terrorism', in L. Howard (ed), Terrorism: Roots, Impact, Responses (London: Praeger, 1992), pp. 71-80.
8. N. Friedland, 'Becoming a Terrorist: Social and Individual Antecedents', in Howard, Terrorism: Roots, Impact, Responses, pp. 81-93.
9. Martha Crenshaw, 'The Logic of Terrorism: Terrorist Behavior as a Product of Strategic Choice', in Walter Reich (ed.), Origins of Terrorism (Cambridge, MA: Woodrow Wilson Center, 1990), p. 24.
10. Edward Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan, The Terrorism Industry: The Experts and Institutions that Shape our View of Terror (New York: Pantheon, 1990).
11. Walter Lacqueur, 'Left, Right and Beyond: The Changing Face of Terror', in James Hoge and Gideon Rose (eds), How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War (Oxford: PublicAffairs, 2001), pp. 71-82.
12. The interested reader will find a useful introduction to this subject in Mike Maguire, Rod Morgan and Robert Reiner, The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, 2nd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
13. Gavin Cameron, 'Multi-Track Micro-Proliferation: Lessons from Aum Shinrikyo and al Qaida', Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 22/4 (1999), pp. 277-309.
14. Yoram Schweitzer, 'Suicide Terrorism: Development and Main Characteristics', in Yoram Schweitzer (ed.), Countering Suicide Terrorism (Herzliya: International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism, 2001) pp.75-85.
15. See, for example, http://www.esrc.ac.uk/esrccontent/news/features2.asp