This Annual Editions title provides convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current, carefully selected articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Within the pages of this volume are interesting, well-illustrated articles by sociologists, political scientists, researchers, and writers providing an effective and useful perspective on today's important topics in the study of violence and terrorism.

UNIT 1. The Concept of Terrorism

1. Defining International Terrorism: A Pragmatic Approach, Thomas J. Badey, Terrorism and Political Violence, Spring 1998

2. Defining Terrorism: Is One Man’s Terrorist Another Man’s Freedom Fighter?, Boaz Ganor, The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, September 23, 1998

UNIT 2. Causes of Terrorism

3. Why America? The Globalization of Civil War, Martha Crenshaw, Current History, December 2001

4. Terror Hits Home: The Colossus With an Achilles Heel, Paul Kennedy, New Perspectives Quarterly, Fall 2001

5. Ghosts of Our Past, Karen Armstrong, Modern Maturity, January/February 2002

6. The Terrorist Mentality, Paul B. Davis, Cerebrum: The Dana Forum on Brain Science, Summer 2001

UNIT 3. Strategies and Tactics of Terrorism

7. The Fourth Wave: September 11 in the History of Terrorism, David C. Rapoport, Current History, December 2001

8. The Philippines: Haunted by Kidnapping, Zhai Kun, Beijing Review, January 31, 2002

(and more...)