Terrorism and Security Studies

Saints and Soldiers

Inside Internet-Age Terrorism, From Syria to the Capitol Siege Rita Katz

Counterterrorism expert Rita Katz reveals a new generation of terrorist movements that don’t just use the internet, but exist almost entirely on it. From ISIS to QAnon, Saints and Soldiers pinpoints the approaches needed for a new era in which arrests and military campaigns alone cannot stop terrorist threats.

$30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-20350-0 November 2022 368 pages

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN TERRORISM AND IRREGULAR WARFARE

Terrorist Financing

William Vlcek

William Vlcek presents a clear and rigorous survey of terrorist financing and the international efforts to combat it. This book is suitable for a range of courses in international relations, politics, and global political economy.

$30.00 paper 978-1-78821-528-2 $95.00 cloth 978-1-78821-527-5 October 2022 224 pages

AGENDA PUBLISHING

Terror in Transition

Leadership and Succession in Terrorist Organizations Tricia L. Bacon and Elizabeth Grimm

This book provides a groundbreaking analysis of how religious terrorist groups manage and adapt to major shifts in leadership. Tricia L. Bacon and Elizabeth Grimm argue that how successors position themselves in terms of the founder shapes a terrorist group’s future and how and why different types of successors choose to pursue incremental or discontinuous change.

$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19225-5 $125.00 / £98.00 cloth 978-0-231-19224-8 September 2022 312 pages

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN TERRORISM AND IRREGULAR WARFARE

Entanglements Between Peace and Violence

New Interdisciplinary Approaches Edited by Joachim Michael and Sebastián Martínez Fernández

Peace and violence are opposites, but they do not exclude each other entirely. The contributors argue that while full peace cannot be achieved, efforts against violence and the prospects for peaceful coexistence never completely disappear.

$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-5868-2 October 2022 235 pages

BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Waves of Global Terrorism

From 1879 to the Present David C. Rapoport

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.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-13303-6 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-13302-9 2022 448 pages

Enemies Near and Far

How Jihadist Groups Strategize, Plot, and Learn Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Thomas Joscelyn

Two internationally recognized experts use newly available documents from al-Qaeda and ISIS to explain how jihadist groups think, grow, and adapt. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Thomas Joscelyn recast militant groups as learning organizations, detailing their embrace of strategic, tactical, and technological innovation.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19525-6 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19524-9 2022 512 pages

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN TERRORISM AND IRREGULAR WARFARE

India in the IndoPacific

Understanding India's Security Orientation Towards Southeast and East Asia Aditi Malhotra

This timely and in-depth book examines India’s reorienting strategic posture and describes how New Delhi’s security policy in the Indo-Pacific region has evolved and expanded over the past two decades. Aditi Malhotra argues that India’s quest to leverage its geostrategic location to emerge as an Indo-Pacific actor faces multiple challenges, which create a clear divide between the country’s political rhetoric and action on the ground.

$95.00 paper 978-3-8474-2474-1 2022 355 pages

VERLAG BARBARA BUDRICH

To Deter and Punish

Global Collaboration Against Terrorism in the 1970s Silke Zoller

To Deter and Punish examines why and how the United States and its Western European allies came to treat nonstate “terrorists” as a key threat. Silke Zoller traces Western state officials’ responses to terrorism from the first Palestinian hijacking in 1968 to Ronald Reagan’s militarization of counterterrorism in the early 1980s.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19547-8 $145.00 /£112.00 cloth 978-0-231-19546-1 2021 360 pages