Encyclopedia of World Terrorism

This timely three-volume set illustrates how deeply the world has been changed by violent events in the 20th century and provides students with a new awareness of how these events continue to shape modern history. Each highly accessible article includes summaries and key fact boxes as well as a list of further readings. The up-to-date Encyclopedia includes entries on the Oklahoma City Bombing, Pan Am Flight 103, and other such terrorist acts that continue to be front-page news. No other reference on this topic explains in such careful detail how violence is being used to achieve political ends all over the world, even in the United States. Volume 1 explores the historical background of different eras: from ancient Greece through 1939; during WWII; and modern terrorist compaigns worldwide. It discusses specific types of terrorism; techniques and methods; and the psychology of terrorism. Volume 2 focuses on terrorist groups and campaigns, with emphasis on the Middle East (including the 1996 peace process), and also covers radical Muslim terrorism, terrorism in Latin America, post-Colonial Asia and Africa, and war and civil war since 1945. Volume 3 is devoted to terrorism in the industrialized world: the United States, Europe, Israel, Britain, and Latin America, with a complete section on responses to terrorism.