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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by U.S. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert -- Foreword by Former First Lady Nancy Reagan -- Foreword by Former Attorney General Edwin Meese -- Introduction -- 1: Narcotics and Terrorism -- 2: Who Are Terrorists? -- 3: The American Addiction -- 4: The Links Between Drugs and Terrorism -- 5: Drugs and Terror at Home -- 6: Identifying Trends in the Drugs-Terror Relationship -- 7: Finding Solutions: What Won't Work -- 8: Finding Solutions: What Might Work -- 9: Closing Ideas -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Index -- Credits -- Contributors -- Photo Collection.

"This book provides a unique insight into the ethical issues and dilemmas facing practitioners and researchers of terrorism and counterterrorism. Ethics play a central if, largely, unrecognised role in most, if not all, issues relevant to terrorism and political violence. These are often most noticeable regarding counterterrorism controversies, while often virtually absent from discussions about academic research practice. At a minimum, ethical issues as they relate to terrorism have rarely been explicitly addressed in a direct or comprehensive manner. The chapters in this edited volume draws on the experience of both practitioners and researchers to explore how a regard to ethical issues might influence and determine research and practice in counter terrorism, and in our understanding of terrorism. Ethics and Terrorism recognizes that there are conflicting and often irreconcilable perspectives from which to view terrorism and terrorism research. In calling for greater attention to these issues, the goal is not to resolve problems, but to explore and clarify the assumptions and dilemmas that underpin our understanding of the personal, institutional and societal ethical boundaries and constraints around terrorism and responses to it. This book will be of value to practitioners and researchers, and to policy makers and the broader interested community. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence."--Publisher

"Women and Terrorism" published on by Oxford University Press.

This chapter explores the complex interaction between migration and terrorism. It proposes a 'terrorism-migration cycle' to investigate systematically this interaction at every stage of the migration process. Importantly, no stage of the migration process is independent of what happened on the previous stage, affecting how terrorism and migration interact. It is shown that terrorism may be a trigger of migration in the origin country, that only particular selections of migrants choose to leave a country, and that these migrants then sort into different destinations. The role of migration governance as a means to avoid the influx of potential terrorists is explored as well as the responses of destination-country populations and governments to the threat of imported terrorism. As yet other challenges, homegrown terrorism within immigrant communities and political violence directed against immigrants are discussed. Finally, it is argued that there are feedback effects of diasporas on the origin countries of immigrant communities.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. The New Warfare and Old Truths: How Our Technologies are Still Our Allies -- 2. The Shock of the Old -- 3. WTC + 2 Update -- 4. A Brief History of Terrorism in the United States -- 5. Terrorism as Technology: A Discussion of the Theoretical Underpinnings -- 6. Securing Through Technology? "Smart Borders" after September 11th -- 7. Hacktivism: Securing the National Infrastructure -- 8. Terrorism and the Internet: Resistance in the Information Age -- 9. Cyber Terror: Missing in Action -- 10. Risk, Terrorism, and the Internet -- 11. The Dark Side of Tinkering -- 12. Code Wars: Steganography, Signals Intelligence, and Terrorism -- 13. Morphing the Counter-Terrorist Response: Beating the Bombers in London's Financial Heart -- 14. Research after September 11: Security is Now the Sturdy Child of Terror -- 15. The Academy and Fourth Generation Warfare -- Index

"Intelligence and Terrorism" published on by Oxford University Press.

Islam and Terrorism For many, making sense of Islam from the media coverage has been nothing less than confusing. Mark Gabriel, an former Muslim and former professor of Islamic history at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, explains why terrorists do what they do. His message is graphic and depicts the ruthless realities behind the teachings of Islam. (Creation House) Full description

Discourse since September 11, 2001 has constrained and shaped public discussion and debate surrounding terrorism worldwide. Social actors in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere employ the language of the "war on terror" to explain, react to, justify and understand a broad range of political, economic and social phenomena. Discourse, War and Terrorism explores the discursive production of identities, the shaping of ideologies, and the formation of collective understandings in response to 9/11 in the United States and around the world. At issue are how enemies are defined a

Terrorism is a threat to democratic government, albeit one with which we may have to live. But what, if anything, does thinking about democracy tell us about terrorism or counter-terrorism? Democracy takes many forms and the inevitable gaps between ideal and reality exacerbate disagreement about what counts, or should count, as an example of democratic government. Nor is the term 'terrorism' less opaque. Still, if democracy is valuable, the differences between democratic and undemocratic government should affect the ways we think about the ethical challenges posed by terrorism. Here are three related suggestions about how a commitment to democratic government should affect our thinking in this area. (1) It is a mistake to think that any distinctive policy proposals follow from the ways in which terrorism is exceptional. (2) Sir David Omand's 'ethical guidelines' for fighting terrorism need to be revised. (3) Citizens are entitled to understand and debate the principles of counter-terrorism.