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World Terrorism: An Encyclopedia of Political Violence from Ancient Times to the Post-9/11 Era, Second Edition
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Description: This timely new successor to the highly acclaimed Encyclopedia of World Terrorism is thoroughly revised, updated, and reorganized--provides the definitive reference resource on terrorism throughout the world from Ancient Greece and Rome to the post-September 11 world. This illustrated, three-volume set includes more than 200 in-depth articles and provides students with essential background on the various types, definitions, and categories of terrorism--domestic and international, religious and nationalist, state and non-state, left-wing and right-wing--as well as detailed entries on terrorist movements and incidents throughout history and across the globe.
Other sections detail the various methods and aims of modern terrorist groups; the technologies, resources, and expertise brought to bear by counterterrorist organizations; and the effects of the September 11 attacks on homeland security, emergency response systems, law enforcement and intelligence-gathering, civil rights, imprisonment and detention, victim relief, immigration policies, and other social, political, and economic issues. An extensive chronology of events, a short-entry appendix of terrorist groups and leaders, and hundreds of photographs, maps, and diagrams help make this an invaluable resource on a vital issue of national and world affairs.
Selected Contents:
Alphabetical List of Entries
Contributors
Introduction
Definitions, Types, and Categories
Introduction
Problems of Defining Terrorism
Domestic vs. International Terrorism
Ethnonationalist Terrorism
Islamist Fundamentalist Terrorism
Left-Wing and Revolutionary Terrorism
Religious (Non-Islamist) Terrorism
Right-Wing and Reactionary Terrorism
State vs. Nonstate Terrorism
Urban vs. Rural Terrorism
Historical Roots -Terrorism Through World War II
Introduction
Ancient World: Greece and Rome
Asia, Middle Ages: Mongols
Asia and the Pacific: Japanese Occupation, 1931-1945
British Empire: Counterterrorism Before 1945
Eastern Europe and Soviet Union: Anti-German Resistance, 1939-1945
Eastern Europe and Soviet Union: German Occupation, 1939-1945
Europe: Holocaust, 1933-1945
Europe, Middle Ages
Europe and Japan: German and Allied Bombing, 1939-1945
European Colonial Expansion Conquests, 18th 20th Centuries
Finland: Civil War, 1918
France: Anarchism, 1880s-1890s
France: Anti-German Resistance, 1940-1945
France: Paris Commune, 1871
France: Revolution, 1789-1815
France and Italy: German Occupation, 1940-1945
Germany: Waffen SS, 1939-1945
Germany: World War II Atrocities and Crimes, 1939-1945
Germany and Japan: War Crimes Trials, 1945-1948
India: Anti-British Struggle, 1900-1947
Ireland: Independence Struggle, 1916-1923
Japan: Atomic Bomb, 1945
Macedonia: Anti-Turkish Resistance, 1893-1939
Middle East, Middle Ages: Assassins Cult
Norway: German Occupation, 1940-1945
Ottoman Empire (Turkey): Armenian Massacres and Genocide, 1894-1896, 1914-1916
Palestine, British: 1920-1947
Romania: Nazi Collaboration, 1940-1942
Russia: Anarchism, 1878-1881
Russia: Civil War, 1917-1921
Soviet Union: Stalinism, 1928-1953
Soviet Union: Wartime Atrocities and Crimes, 1941-1945
United States: Conflict with Native Americans, 17th-19th Centuries
United States: Molly Maguires, 1860s-1870s
World War I: Assassination at Sarajevo, 1914
World War I: Atrocities, 1914-1918
Yugoslavia: Anti-German Resistance, 1941-1945
Modern Terrorism--The Post World War II Era
Introduction
Afghanistan: Rise of the Taliban, 1990s
Afghanistan: Soviet War, 1979-1989
Afghanistan: Terrorist Haven Under the Taliban, 1994-Present
Afghanistan: U.S. Invasion and War, 2001-Present
Algeria: Fundamentalist Conflict, 1980s-Present
Algeria: Liberation War Against France, 1954-1962
Angola: Civil and Separatist Wars, 1975-2000s
Argentina: Leftist Terrorism and the "Dirty War, 1960s-1980s
Bahrain: Shi ite Struggle, 1980s-Present
Bosnia: Civil Conflict, 1991-1995
Brazil: Military Dictatorship, 1964-1985
Cambodia: Genocide and Civil Conflict, 1975-1978
Canada: International Terrorism, 1970s-Present
Canada: Quebec Separatism, 1960s-1970s
Central Asian Republics: Islamist Terrorism, 1991-Present
Chile: Coup and Dictatorship, 1965-1989
China: Uyghur and Muslim Unrest, 1990s-Present
Colombia: Guerrilla Warfare and Narco-Terrorism, 1960-Present
Cyprus: Anti-British Struggle, 1954-1958
Egypt: Fundamentalist Struggle, 1980s-2000s
El Salvador: Civil War, 1970s-1992
Eritrea: Anti-Ethiopian Struggle and Somali Civil War, 1961-2000s
France: Ethnic, Nationalist, and Separatist Struggles, 1960s-1990s
France: Islamist Terrorism, 1990s
France: Left-Wing Terrorism and Activism, 1970s-2000s
France: Response to Anti-Colonial Struggles, 1946-1962
France: Right-Wing Terrorism, 1960s-1990s
Germany, West: Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang), 1960s-1980s
Greece: Civil War, 1944-1953
Greece: Domestic and International Terrorism, 1973-2000s
Guatemala: Civil War, 1960s-1996
India: Kashmir Struggle, 1947-Present
India: Sikh Nationalism, 1970s-1990s
Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam): Anti-French Conflict, 1946-1954
Indonesia: Islamist Militancy, 1990s-Present
Iran: Revolution and Post-Revolution Violence, 1970s-Present
Iran: State Sponsorship of Terrorism, 1980s-Present
Iraq: Saddam Hussein Regime, 1968-2003
Iraq: State Terrorism Against the Kurds, 1968-2003
Iraq: U.S. Invasion and Post-Saddam Hussein Era, 2003- Present
Israel/Palestine: Jewish Terrorism, 1940s-Present
Israel: Raid on Entebbe, 1976
Israel: Raids on the PLO, 1960s-1980s
Israel: Response to Terrorism, 1948-Present
Israel: War of Independence, 1948-1949
Israeli/Palestinian Conflict, 1960s-Present
Italy: Red Brigades, 1969-1984
Japan: Aum Shinrikyo Terrorism, 1980s-1990s
Japan: Radical Attacks, 1960s-1980s
Jordan: Palestinian Nationalism and Islamic Fundamentalism, 1960s-2000s
Kenya: Mau Mau Uprising, 1952-1956
Kenya and Tanzania: Embassy Bombings, 1998
Korea: Korean War, 1950-1953
Korea, North: WMD Threat, 1980s-Present
Lebanon: Civil War, 1975-1990
Lebanon: Hezbollah, 1982-Present
Lebanon: Post Civil War Era, 1987-Present
Libya: State Sponsorship of Terrorism, 1970s-2000s
Malaysia (Malaya): Anti-British Conflict, 1948-1960
Mexico: Narco-Terrorism, 2000s-Present
Mexico: Zapatista Uprising, 1994-2000s
Namibia: Anti South African Struggle, 1960-1990
Nepal: Maoist Uprising, 1996-2006
Nicaragua: Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1974-1990
Nigeria: Antigovernment Violence and Christmas Day Bomber, 1960s-2000s
Pakistan: Islamist Struggle, 1947-Present
Palestine: Beginning of International Terrorism, 1968-1970
Palestine: Birth of Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Organization, 1948-1969
Palestine: First Intifada, 1987-1992
Palestine: Islamist Fundamentalism, 1980s-Present
Palestine: PLO and the Arab States, 1970s-Present
Palestinian Terrorism: Hijacking of the Achille Lauro, 1985
Palestinian Terrorism: Raids on Kiryat Shmona and Ma alot, 1974
Peru: Shining Path and Leftist Uprisings, 1970s-2000s
Philippines: Marxist and Islamist Struggles, 1940s-2000s
Portuguese Africa (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique): Liberation Struggles, 1961-1975
Russia/Soviet Union: Ethnic and Nationalist Conflict in the Transcaucasus Region and Ukraine: 1980s-2000s
Russia: Chechnya Conflict, 1994-Present
Rwanda: Genocide, 1994-2000s
Saudi Arabia: Domestic and Internationalism Terrorism, 1980s-2000s
Serbia: Kosovo Conflict, 1990s
Sierra Leone: Civil War, 1997-2002
Somalia: Failed State Conflict and Rise of Islamist Militants, 1977-2000s
South Africa: Antiapartheid Struggle, 1948-1994
South Africa: Postapartheid Violence, 1994-2000s
Spain: Conflict with ETA, 1959-2000s
Spain: Islamist Terrorism, 2004
Sri Lanka: Tamil Tiger Uprising, Late 1970s-2009
Sudan: Conflicts in South Sudan and Darfur, Late 1950s-2000s
Sudan: Terrorist Haven, 1989-2000s
Syria: State Sponsorship of Terrorism, 1979-2000s
Timor Leste (East Timor): Independence Struggle, 1975-2002
Turkey: Kurdish Struggle, 1984-2000s
Uganda: Lord's Resistance Army, 1996-2001
Uganda: State Terrorism under Idi Amin, 1971-1979
United Kingdom: Decolonization and Post-Colonization Struggles, 1945-1970s
United Kingdom: Islamist Terrorism, 2000s
United Kingdom: Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-2000s
United States: Animal Rights, 1970s-2000s
United States: Anthrax Attacks, 2001
United States: Antiabortion Violence, 1973-Present
United States: Aryan Nations and White Supremacists, 1970s-2000s
United States: Black Panther Violence, 1966-1971
United States: Ecoterrorism, 1980s-2000s
United States: Ku Klux Klan Violence, 1860s-1990s
United States: Oklahoma City Bombing and the Militia Movement, 1990s
United States: Millennium Bomb Plot, 1999
United States: Puerto Rican Separatism, 1950s-1980s
United States: Response to Terrorism before September 11, 1960s-2001
United States: Symbionese Liberation Army Violence, 1970s
United States: Tax Protesters, 1970s-Present
United States: Weathermen Violence, 1960s-1970s
United States: World Trade Center Bombing, 1993
Uruguay: Tupamaro Uprising, 1960s-1985
Venezuela: Guerrilla Uprising, 1962-1979
Vietnam: American War, 1959-1975
Yemen: Civil War and Islamist Terrorism, 1990s-2000s
Zimbabwe (Rhodesia): Liberation Struggle and Postliberation Violence, 1965-2000s
September 11, 2001--Attacks and Response
Introduction
Al-Qaeda
Bin Laden, Osama
Emergency Response: Police, Firefighters, and Medical Personnel
The Hijackers
Media Coverage
National Political Response
New York City and State Political Response
Shock and Mourning
Victims and Survivors
International Reaction
Global Economic Impact
U.S. Aid and Relief
U.S. Foreign Policy
U.S. Foreign Relations
Political, Legal, and Social Issues
Anti-Muslim Sentiment
Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, and National Security
Cleanup and Rebuilding
Government Spying and Privacy Issues
Imprisonment and Legal Status of Detainees
Torture
U.S. Economic Impact
Victim Relief
Security and Defense
Airport Security
Armed Forces Missions
Homeland Defense: Organization and Policy
Hunt for al-Qaeda and Terrorist Networks, 2001-Present
Immigration Policy and Border Defense
Intelligence Community: Pre-9/11 Failures and Successes
Intelligence Community: Response to 9/11
Legislation
National Guard Missions
Special Events Security
Terror Threat Warnings
Tactics, Methods, and Aims of Modern Terrorism
Introduction
Assassination
Collaboration Among Terrorists
Cyberterrorism and Information Warfare
Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime Connections
Freelance, Contract, and Lone Zealot Terrorists
Hijacking
Kidnapping and Extortion
Ideological Orientations: Anti-Western and Anti-U.S.
Internet, Terrorist Use of
Mass-Casualty Attacks and Strategic Targets
Media Coverage and Manipulation
Money: Raising, Laundering, and Transfer
Organization of Terrorist Groups
Psychology of Terrorists
Recruitment and Training
Safe Havens, Terrorist
State-Sponsored Terrorism
Suicide Attacks
Victims, Use of
Weapons, Chemical and Biological
Weapons, Conventional
Weapons, Nuclear and Radiological
Counterterrorism
Introduction
Assymetric Warfare
Drone Attacks and Assassinations, Counterterrorist
Financial Counterterrorism
Hostage Negotiations
Intelligence, Counterterrorist
International Cooperation Against Terrorism
International Law and the War on Terrorism
Law Enforcement, Counterterrorist
Media and Propaganda in Counterterrorism
Special Operations
Technology, Terrorist and Counterterrorist
U.S. Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction
Appendices
Chronology of Major Terrorist Events: 1945-2011
Directory of Terrorist Groups and Individuals
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Review(s): "A wide array of topics on terrorism and counterterrorism is presented within the 200 articles in this revision. The global and historical coverage is impressive, with such articles as 'Middle East, Middle Ages: Assassins' cult'; 'pursuit and death of Osama bin Laden, 1998-2011'; and 'terrorist use of the Internet.' Special end features include a listing of terrorist groups and individuals. This important title is appropriate for public, school, and academic libraries, even those that own the 1997 set or 2003 supplement." -- Library Journal
" World Terrorism provides a timely sequel in light of supervening events. Although many encyclopedic works on international terrorism are available, this one distinguishes itself by its thoroughness. Adopting an expansive definition of the term, with over 200 articles-most devoted to examples of terrorist acts worldwide-the set is quite comprehensive. Its three volumes enable the kind of depth that comparable works lack. This is a set well worth having on one's reference shelves. Highly recommended. Lower-level and above; general readers." -- Choice
"The essays are well-written and researched and should appeal to a variety of audiences, with the length of the essays geared to the importance of the topic. Each entry has a brief list of core readings as well as useful cross references. Many have sidebars containing key dates and maps and photos enhancing the text. Not only can this set be used to get background for specific topics of interest, a careful examination of the way the set is organized will give readers a strong sense of the complexity of the topic, both past and present. Public, academic, and larger high school libraries will all want to give it serious consideration seeing how important an understanding of terrorism is to a variety of interested audiences." -- Against the Grain
"Considering the complexity of the subject, Ciment has done an adequate job of describing and documenting many of the numerous types and acts of terrorism from 600 BCE to 2011. This set will be beneficial to libraries not owning the earlier edition, and to those that need extra information on the 9/11 attacks and the responses to them, including the pursuit and death of Osama bin Laden." -- School Library Journal
"This encyclopedia will provide answers to student questions about the history of terrorism, its organizations, and its tactics." -- Library Media Connection
    
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