International Terrorism in the Contemporary World

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents xi
• Foreword xv
• Part I - General Introduction xvii
• Symposium Summary 1
• Preface 19
• Introduction to International Terrorism 25
• Terror: An Overview 36
• Trends in Transnational Terrorism 44
• Part II - International Terrorism in Selected Parts of the World 75
• Terrorism in Ireland: Renewal of a Tradition 77
• The Effect of Social and Political Crime on the Police and British Army in Northern Ireland 84
• The Patriot Game: the Politics of Violence in Northern Ireland 94
• The Antiterrorist Legislation in Sweden 111
• The Price of Terror in the Ussr 122
• The Ku Klux Klan and the National Liberation Front: Terrorism Applied to Achieve Diverse Goals 131
• Political Violence and Cultural Patterns in Central America 153
• Terrorism in the Middle East 160
• The Plo and Its Place in Violence and Terror 165
• From Protest to Terror-Violence: the African Experience 177
• Integrative and Disintegrative Terror: the Case of Equatorial Guinea 182
• Motivation for Political Terrorism in Germany 195
• Violence and Change in Postindusirial Societies: Student Protest in America and Japan in the 1960s 204
• Part III - Some Psychological Aspects of International Terrorism 221
• Prolegomena to a Psychohistorical Study of Terrorism 223
• Notes 230
• Sadism and Paranoia 231
• Terrorism and Violence in the Light of a Theory of Discontent and Frustration 240
• Selected Bibliography 264
• Part IV - Some Political Consequences of International Terrorism 267
• Police Terrorism 269
• Hostage Survival 276
• The Media and Terrorism 282
• Bibliography 286
• Terrorism and the Intelligence Function 287
• Terrorist Manipulation of the Democratic Process 297
• Political Assassination 307
• Terrorism and Political Violence: Do the Ends Justify the Means? 316
• Part V - Some Legal Problems and International Terrorism 323
• The Control of State Terror Through the Application of the International Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict 325
• Essential Features of an International Criminal Court 333
• Détente in Action: A Convention on International Crimes 341
• The Legal Problems of Hijacking and Taking of Hostages 346
• A New Look at Political Offenses and Terrorism 354
• Notes 373
• American Policy Response to International Terrorism: Problems of Deterrence 376
• Notes 385
• Part VI - International Terrorism and the Military 387
• Terrorism as a Military Weapon 389
• Notes 400
• The Impact of Nuclear Terrorism on the Military's Role in Society 402
• Terrorism: the New Growth Form of Warfare 415
• Part VII - Some Historical Aspects of International Terrorism 421
• Violence and Terror: the Nazi-German Conception of Killing and Murder 423
• Notes 429
• Terror, Holocaust, and the Will to Live 430
• The Ss: A Social and Psychohistorical Analysis 436
• Who Speaks Today of the Armenians 444
• Terrorism and Literature 447
• Terrorism-the Past as an Indicator of the Future 454
• Terrorism: How to Avoid the Future 462
• Selected Bibliography 469
• Appendix 503
• Index 518

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