Terrorism Today: The Past, The Players, The Future

by Jeremy R. Spindlove, Clifford E. Simonsen

Taking an unbiased approach, Terrorism Today offers a lens into the history and status of terrorism around the world. Written with a global perspective, it addresses different regions of the world and the terrorist groups in each region. The text examines terrorist events and groups, analyzes responses to terrorism and the resulting changes in terrorist strategies, and steps through each continent mapping out current and future trends. The text’s fifteen chapters build from historical backgrounds to predictions about terrorism in the twenty-first century.

616 pages, Paperback

First published August 26, 1999

Reviews

[Ken Lang · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a good textbook for students studying global terrorism. However, I did find numerous misspellings, sentence structure issues, and a tendency of the authors to let their political views surface under certain issues (i.e. whether or not to support Israel). The text is also somewhat dated as it lacks some crucial recent events.