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Description: Today more than ever, terrorism is one of the most compelling domestic and international concerns. This timely and authoritative work is the definitive research tool for the topic. It picks up where the original and highly acclaimed Encyclopedia of World Terrorism leaves off, and examines terrorist activity worldwide from the mid-1990s to the present.
The set covers the attack on the World Trade Center, the "War on Terrorism," and the escalating violence in Israel and the occupied territories in detail, offering historical context and contemporary analysis by terrorism and counter-terrorism experts. It investigates key issues and events related to global and domestic terrorism, as well as current and future trends in terrorism and counter-terrorism. The work includes completely new and original entries on terrorist individuals, organizations, and activities around the globe, and it also update entries from the original Encyclopedia of World Terrorism where appropriate. In addition , this set includes a complete volume of primary source documents relating to terrorism from ancient times to the present.
Selected Contents:
Section One: Twenty-First Century Terrorism
Introduction: Why America Was Attacked; Defining Terrorism: An International Consensus; A Critical Issue After 9/11
1. SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
Attack on the World Trade Center; Attack on the Pentagon; Attack on United Airlines Flight 93 in Pennsylvania; Victims: The Dead; the Survivors; Family, Friends, and Co-Workers; The Hijackers; Costs: Infrastructure Damage and Collateral Effects; Emergency Response: Police, Firefighters, and Medical; Trauma: A City and Nation in Shock and Mourning; Media Coverage; Political Response: New York City and State; Political Response: Washington
2: SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: IMPACT IN AMERICA AND ABROAD
Security: Airport Security; Homeland Defense Initiative and U.S. Counter-Terrorism Policy; Immigration Policy and Border Defense; Legislation; Department of Defense: New Missions; National Guard: New Missions; Intelligence Community: Failure and Response; Law Enforcement; Terror Threat Warnings; Special Events Security; U.S. Response to Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Terrorist Attacks
Economics: Impact on US Economy; Airline and Travel Industry; Victim Relief; Clean-Up and Rebuilding
Politics and Law: Political Fallout: National, State, and Local; Anti-Muslim Sentiments and Violence; Renewed Patriotism; Civil Rights, Civil Liberties and National Security; Military Tribunals
International: International Reaction; Global Economy; US Foreign Policy (Global); US Foreign Relations (Region and Country); Radical Islam
3: AMERICA'S RESPONSE
War in Afghanistan; Hunt for Al Qaeda and Terrorist Networks; Financial War on Terrorism; International Reaction to War; International Cooperation in War; Aid and Relief; Media Coverage of War; Prisoners and Guantanamo
4: INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Ashcroft, John; Atef, Mohammed; Arafat, Yasser; bin Laden, Osama; Blair, Tony; Bush, George W.; Giuliani, Rudolph; Hussein, Saddam; Karzai, Hamid; Lindh, John Walker; Massoud, Ahmed Shah; Mughniyah, Imad; Musharraf, Pervez; Omar, Mullah Muhammed; Powell, Colin; al-Qaeda; Reid, Richard; Ressam, Ahmed; Ridge, Tom; Rogue States; Rumsfeld, Donald; Saeed, Sheikh Omar; Sharon, Ariel; Taliban; Yousef, Ramzi; al-Zawahiri, Ayman; Zubaydah, Abu
Section Two: Global Terrorism, 1996-2002
Introduction
5: KEY ISSUES
Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Terrorist Groups; Emerging Issues: State Terrorism Regimes and More Aggressive U.S.-sponsored "War on Terrorism"; Intelligence; Kidnapping and Extortion; Money Raising, Laundering and Transferring; Rogue States and Terrorist Groups; Suicide Terrorism; International Law and "War on Terrorism"
6. TERRORISM IN NORTH AMERICA
The Canadian Connection
7: DOMESTIC U.S. TERRORISM
Animal Rights; Anthrax Attacks; Anti-Abortion; Aryan Nations; Eco-Terrorism; McVeigh: Trial and Execution; Militias; Millennium Bomb Plot; Tax Protesters
8: LATIN AMERICA
Colombia; Mexico and Zapatistas; Peru; Tri-Border Region: Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay
9: EUROPE
France-Corsica; Greece; Northern Ireland and United Kingdom; Serbia: NATO Bombing and Anti-Western Violence; Spain and ETA; Turkey and the Kurds
10: FORMER SOVIET UNION
Central Asian Republics: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan; Chechnya; Russia: Bombings
11: MIDDLE EAST
Algeria; Egypt; Iraq; Iran; Israel/Palestine; Lebanon; Saudi Arabia: Khobar bombing investigation; Syria; Yemen
12: AFRICA
Angola; Kenya and Tanzania: Embassy bombings; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Somalia; South Africa; Sudan; Uganda
13: ASIA
Cambodia; China; East Timor; India: Sikh terrorism; Kashmir: India and Pakistan; Nepal and Bhutan: southern Himalayan region; North Korea; Pakistan; Philippines; Sri Lanka
14: FUTURE TRENDS IN TERRORISM AND COUNTER-TERRORISM
Changing Nature of Global Terrorism: Threats and Responses; The Challenge of Counter-Terrorism in the Twenty-first Century; Asymmetric Warfare and the Terrorist Threat; Cyber-terrorism and Information Warfare; Eco-terrorists, Anti-globalist Groups and Mass Violence; Freelancers, Contractors, and Lone Zealots; Ideological Orientations: Anti-Western and Anti-U.S.; Mass Casualty Attacks and Strategic Targets; Ethno-nationalists Terrorists; Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Terrorism; Religious Terrorists: Fundamentalist-apocalyptic; Special Operations and Unconventional Warfare; Terrorism and Law Enforcement; Terrorism, Counter-terrorism, and Technology; Use of Conventional Weapons Technologies and Tactics; Internet: Tool for Terrorists in the 21st Century
Encyclopedia of World Terrorism: Documents
Section Three: Original Documents
Preface; Introduction
15. TOWARD WORLD TERRORISM: DOCUMENTS OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
The Sicarii: Terrorism in Roman-Occupied Judea: Josephus's Account of the Sicarii (ca. AD 75)
Crusaders and their Tactics: Terror in the Middle Ages: Excerpt from d'Aguilers's History (1099)
The Assassins: Medieval Roots of Islamic Terrorism: Excerpt from The Book of Ser Marco Polo (ca. 1271)
Massacre at Lenthall: Terrorism in an Age of Radical Reform: Excerpt from The Cromwell Papers (ca. 1649)
The Order of the Day: Robespierre's Reign of Terror in the French Revolution: The Law of Suspects (1793); Excerpt from Robspierre's Notebook (Autumn, 1793); A District Questionnaire (1794); An Englishman's Account of the Terror (1793)
John Brown's Raid: An Abolitionist's Campaign of Terror in the American South: Recollections of the John Brown Raid (1859)
Terror in the American West: The Sand Creek Massacre: Excerpt from the Congressional Testimony of Mr. John S. Smith (1865)
Russian Pogroms: Anti-Semitic Terrorism in Eastern Europe: Reuters Dispatches (1881); from a Daily Telegraph Dispatch (1881)
Terror in Colonial Africa: Leopold's Congo Free State: Excerpt from Roger Casement's Report on the Congo (1904)
The Black Hand: Serbian Nationalism and the Outbreak of World War I Borijove Jevtic's Account of the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914): Tactics of Terror: German Forces Occupy Belgium in World War I: Excerpt from The Bryce Report on German Outrages in Belgium (1914)
Armenian Massacres: Terror in the Ottoman Empire: Excerpt from The Bryce Report on the Treatment of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire (1916)
The Red Terror: Revolutionary Terrorism in the Soviet Union: An Order from the Cheka (1918); Dzerzhinsky on the Use of Terror (1918); A British View of the Red Terror (1919)
Kristallnacht: Terrorism as State Policy: Instructions for Terror (1938); Terror at the Dinslaken Orphanage (1938); Nazi Authorities Discuss the "Jewish Question" following Kristallnacht (1938)
16. COMBATING WORLD TERRORISM: INTERNATIONAL
Introduction
United Nations Conventions: Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft, "Tokyo Convention" (1963); Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, "Hague Convention" (1970); Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation, "Montreal Convention" (1971); Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons (1973); Convention On The Prohibition Of The Development, Production And Stockpiling Of Bacteriological (biological) And Toxin Weapons And On Their Destruction (BTWC) (1975); International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages, "Hostages Convention" (1979); Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, "Nuclear Materials Convention" (1980);
Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, Supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (1988)
Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (1988); Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf (1988); Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Identification, "Montreal Convention" (1991); International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombing (1997); International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (1999)
United Nations Security Council Resolutions: Resolution 425 on the situation between Israel and Lebanon (1978); Resolution 731 on Libya's support of terrorism (1992); Resolution 748 on Libya's support of Arab Jamahiriya (1992); Resolution 1044 on the assassination attempt on the Egyptian President (1996); Resolution 1054 imposing sanctions in connection with Resolution 1044 (1996); Resolution 1189 condemning the US Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania (1998); Resolution 1193 on the situation in Afghanistan and the ruling Taliban (1998); Resolution 1214 on the worsening situation in Afghanistan (1998); Resolution 1267 demanding the extradition of Al Qaeda leader Osama (alt. Usama) bin Laden from Afghanistan (1999)
Resolution 1269 on the responsibility of the Security Council in the maintenance of international peace and security (1999); Resolution 1333 on the continuing situation in Afghanistan (2000); Resolution 1368 on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts (2001); Resolution 1373 on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts (2001)
United Nations General Assembly Resolutions: Resolution 3034 (1977): Measures to prevent international terrorism; Resolution 39/159 (1984): Inadmissibility of the policy of State terrorism and any actions by States aimed at undermining the socio-political system in other sovereign States; Resolution 51/210 (1996): Measures to eliminate international terrorism; Resolution 56/1 (2001): Condemnation of terrorist attacks in the United States
Regional Conventions and Declarations: OAS Convention to Prevent and Punish Acts of Terrorism Taking the Form of Crimes against Persons and Related Extortion that are of International Significance (Organization of American States) (1971); European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism (1977); SSARC Regional Convention on Suppression of Terrorism (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) (1987); CM/Res. 1587 (LXII) "Resolution on the crisis between the Great Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the United States of America, the United Kingdom and France (Organization of African Unity) (1995); Ottawa Ministerial Declaration on Countering Terrorism (1995); G7 Declaration on Terrorism (1996); G7/P8 Ministerial Conference on Terrorism (1996);
Summit of Peacemakers: Sharm el-Sheikh-Final Statement (1996); Arab Convention for the Suppression of Terrorism (League of Arab States) (1998); Convention of the Organization of the Islamic Conference on Combating International Terrorism (1999) OAS Resolution-Strengthening Hemispheric Cooperation to Prevent, Combat, and Eliminate Terrorism (2001)
17. HOMELAND DEFENSE: NATIONAL LEGISLATION AND ENFORCEMENT POLICIES
Introduction:
Canada: Anti-Terrorism Act, "Bill C-36" (2001)
India: National Security Act (1980); Terrorist Affected Areas Act, "Special Courts Act" (1984); Prevention of Terrorism Bill (2000); Prevention of Terrorism Ordinances (2001)
Israel: Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance "Ordinance No. 33 " (1948)
Japan: Anti-Terrorism Special Measures Bill (2001)
Pakistan: Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance (1999)
United Kingdom: Prevention of Terrorism Act (1989); Terrorism Act of 2000 (2000); Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act (2001)
United States: Congressional Legislation: S.375 "Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act" (1996); S1447 "Aviation and Transportation Security Act" (2001); HR 3162 "USA Patriot Act" (2001); Executive Orders: 12947 (annex to): Prohibiting Transactions with Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process (January 23, 1995); 13067: Blocking Sudanese Government Property and Prohibiting Transactions with Sudan (November 3, 1997); 13069: Prohibiting Certain Transactions with Respect to UNITA (December 15, 1997); 13129: Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With the Taliban (July 4, 1999); 13224: locking Property and Prohibiting Transactions with Persons who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism (September 23, 2001); 13228: Establishing the Office of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Council (October 8, 2001); 13239: Designation of Afghanistan and the Airspace Above as a Combat Zone (December 12, 2001)
18. RATIONALIZING TERROR: DECLARATIONS AND MANIFESTOS
Introduction:
Terrorism in the Middle East: Politics, Territory, and Terror in Palestine: The Iron Wall (1937); The Palestinian Liberation Organization, PLO (1968); The Covenant of Hamas, Islamic Resistance Movement (1988)
The Rise of International Terrorism: Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda Network: World Islamic Front Statement (1998); Al-Qaida Statement after 9-11 Attacks (2001)
Conflict in Northern Ireland: The Irish Republican Army: Irish Declaration of Independence (1919); IRA New Year Statement (1997); IRA Statement on Disarmament (2001)
Ethnic Nationalism and Radical Separatists: Violent Movements in QuTbec, Sri Lanka, and the Basque Country: FLQ Manifesto (1970); Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, "Tamil Tigers" (1992); Euskadi Ta Askatasuna's Manifesto to the Basque Country (1995)
America's Domestic Terrorism: From Dissidents to Hate Groups: August Spies and the Haymarket Riots (1886); A Communique from the Symbionese Liberation Army (1974); An American Nazi Manifesto (1965); Excerpt from the Unabomber's Manifesto (1995); A Bombers Rationale, from Timothy McVeigh (2001); Excerpt from the Army of God Manual (2002)
Chronology of Major Terrorist Events: 1996-2002
Terrorist Groups/Organizations
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Review(s): With this massive, two-volume reference, general editors Shanty and Raymond Picquet ... provide a timely update to the publisher's 1996 work with the same title. ... with a fascinating array of primary-source documents. ... this encyclopedia can truly stand alone. ... For all academic libraries, especially those supporting international studies or criminal justice courses, and for larger public libraries. Library Journal
...contains excellent information on specific groups and actions. ...those looking for a solid resource on recent terrorist activities will want to consider this update for purchase. School Library Journal
The editors provide an encyclopedic treatment of global terrorism. ... Recommended. Public and academic libraries. CHOICE
    
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