Discusses the nature of terrorism, major organizations around the world, laws relating to terrorism and terrorist activities, and specific terrorist attacks and trials.
University level introductory material, with an impressive depth of detail for the wide array of perspective given; differentiates historically and characteristically, between State Terror and guerilla warfare, and Old and New terrorism (the nationalistic vs the idiosyncratic respectively), in addition to the various methods of counterterrorism developing internationally to the new modes of violence.