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Terrorism is a persistent form of political violence, but it appears intermittently, afflicting certain places in certain eras while others remain unscathed. Since the late nineteenth century, it has risen and fallen in recurrent generation-long spasms in which hundreds of short-lived groups wreak havoc. Why have past outbreaks of terror tended to come in waves, and how does this pattern shed light on future threats? David C. Rapoport, a preeminent scholar of political violence, identifies and analyzes four distinct waves of global terrorism. He examines the dynamics of each wave, contrasting their tactics, targets, and goals and placing them in the context of the much longer history of terrorism. Global terror emerged in the 1880s after technological changes transformed communication and transportation and dynamite enabled individuals or small groups to carry out bombings. Emanating from Russia, a first wave of anarchists assassinated prominent figures in what they called "propaganda of the deed." This was followed by a second wave of anticolonial terrorism that arose in the British Empire in the 1920s. Beginning in the 1960s, a third wave of New Left movements took hostages and hijacked airplanes. Most recently, religious movements—mostly but not entirely in the Islamic world—have constituted a fourth wave, pioneering self-martyrdom or suicide bombing. Rapoport also considers whether a fifth wave of anti-immigrant or white supremacist terror is emerging today. Recasting the complex history of modern political violence, Waves of Global Terrorism makes a major contribution to our understanding of the roots of contemporary terrorism.

Introduction / David C. Oh -- Part I: Mediating the Racial and Ethnic Other: 1. Aspirational Interraciality and Desirable Whiteness: South Korean Media Depictions of Interracial Intimacies between White Women and Cosmopolitan South Korean Men / Min Joo Lee -- 2. Strategic Blackness in South Korean Television / Benjamin M. Han -- 3. The Televised Korean Dream: The Birth of a Great Star and Racial/Ethnic Diversity in the Survival Audition Program in South Korea / Ji-Hyun Ahn -- 4. Narratives of Marginalized Otherness in Migrant Women: The South Korean films Rosa and Thuy / Eunbi Lee and Colby Y. Miyose -- 5. Two Sides of the "Other": Fear and Loving of Japanese Characters in Contemporary South Korean Cinema / Russell Edwards -- Part II: Mediating the Co-ethnic Other: 6. "Truth? No One Cares about the Truth": On Marginalized Identities and Belonging in The Bacchus Lady / Myoung-Sun Song -- 7. Staging North Korean Defections: Uncharted Borders, Ideological Disorientation, and Diasporic Conditions / Miseong Woo -- 8. Enemy of the State: Cold War Rhetoric and Representation of North Korea/ns in Hallyu Films / JongHwa Lee -- 9. Reframing the Difference of Co-ethnic Other in Japan: An Analysis of Representations and Identifications in the South Korean Documentary Film Uri-Hakkyo / Min Wha Han -- 10. The Other at Home: A Comparative Analysis of Coverage of an Exiled Korean American K-Pop Star / Alice Nahyeon Kim and Sherry S. Yu -- Conclusion / David C. Oh -- Contributors -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Introduction: From the Other Shore -- PART I: AUTOCRATIC RUSSIA, LETHARGIC RUSSIANS -- 1 An Empire of Climate -- 2 Endurance without Limit -- 3 Studying Our Nearest Oriental Neighbor -- PART II: REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA, INSTINCTUAL RUSSIANS -- 4 Little above the Brute -- 5 Sheep without a Shepherd -- 6 Feeding the Mute Millions of Muzhiks -- PART III: MODERNIZING RUSSIA, BACKWARD RUSSIANS -- 7 New Society, New Scholars -- 8 The Romance of Economic Development -- 9 Starving Itself Great -- 10 Scratch a Soviet and You'll Find a Russian -- Epilogue: Russian Expertise in an Age of Social Science -- Sources -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Contents -- Introduction: A Hedgehog's Tale of Complexity -- References -- Part I: Starting Out -- Chapter 1: Discovering Complexity -- 1.1 Philosophical Digression -- References -- Chapter 2: Models -- References -- Part II: Clinician Role -- Chapter 3: Clinical Diagnosis: "Simple" Patients -- References -- Chapter 4: Complex Patients -- References -- Chapter 5: Levels and Hierarchy in Complex Systems: What Gets Diabetes? -- References -- Chapter 6: Managing Patients: Evidence-Based Medicine Meets Human Complexity -- References -- Part III: Educator Role -- Chapter 7: Taking Complex Systems into Account When Teaching About Diabetes -- References -- Chapter 8: Using Analogies to Make Connections Between Seemingly Disparate Systems: The Case of Patient Safety -- References -- Part IV: Research and Administrative Roles -- Chapter 9: The Complexity of Context -- References -- Chapter 10: Complexity and Project Outcome: Why QI Projects Fail to Deliver on Their Promise and Even When Successful Initially, They Are Unsustainable -- References -- Chapter 11: Why Health Services Research Fails to Deliver: Complexity and Context -- References -- Chapter 12: Complexity and Management and Policy: Why Our Interventions Go Astray -- References -- Chapter 13: Precision Medicine and Complexity -- References -- Part V: Educator Role II: Teaching Complex Systems in a Business School -- Chapter 14: Drawing Upon Medicine to Teach Complex Systems to Business School Students: 1. Networks -- References -- Chapter 15: Drawing upon Medicine to Teach Complex Systems to Business School Students: 2 Thinking in Systems -- References -- Part VI: Reflections -- Chapter 16: The Two Cultures of Complexity -- References -- Chapter 17: The Two Cultures of Medicine -- References -- Chapter 18: Dealing with Complex Systems.