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Additional Reading
A collection of critical essays on various international movements and crises is Martha Crenshaw (ed.), Terrorism in Context (1995). A comprehensive survey of patterns of terrorism is Bruce Hoffman, Inside Terrorism (1999). Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religion’s Violence (2000), studies the relationship between religion and political violence. The relationship between politics and terrorism is explored in Grant Wardlaw, Political Terrorism: Theory, Tactics, and Counter-Measures, 2nd ed., rev. and extended (1989); and Paul Wilkinson, Terrorism and the Liberal State, 2nd ed., rev., extended, and updated (1986). Works examining trends in terrorism in the 1990s include Walter Laqueur, The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction (1999); and Richard A. Falkenrath, Robert D. Newman, and Bradley A. Thayer, America’s Achilles’ Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack (1998).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: CFR Education - What Is Terrorism? | Jul 20, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CFR Education - What Is Terrorism? | Feb 06, 2026 | ||
| Top Questions added. | Sep 16, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cambridge Core - British Journal of Political Science - Terrorism and Migration: An Overview. | Jul 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Psychology - Terrorism and the internet: How dangerous is online radicalization? | Dec 17, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Defining Terrorism: The Evolution of Terrorism asa Legal Concept in International Law and ItsInfluence on Definitions in Domestic Legislation. | Oct 21, 2024 | ||
| Mention of stochastic terrorism and cross-reference to Britannica article added. | Jul 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital History - Terrorism in Historical Perspective. | Apr 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States Institute of Peace - Rethinking the "War of Terror". | Mar 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: FBI - Terrorism. | May 15, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Social Sciences LibreTexts - Terrorism. | Nov 11, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS Frontline - The Evolution Of Islamic Terrorism. | Aug 24, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cornell Law Scholl - Legal Information Institute - Terrorism. | Aug 18, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Terrorism. | Jul 27, 2020 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 10, 2020 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 26, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Kids Health - For Kids - Terrorism. | Jul 28, 2016 | ||
| Photo added of July 2015 counterassault on a police station in Dinanagar, Punjab state, India. | Aug 04, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - History - Terrorism. | Nov 30, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: United Nations - Terrorism. | Nov 30, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Terrorism. | Nov 30, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: How Stuff Works - People - Terrorism. | Nov 30, 2012 | ||
| Added new Web site: FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency - Terrorism. | Oct 24, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency - Terrorism. | Oct 24, 2008 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 08, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Apr 15, 2004 | ||
| Article revised. | Apr 17, 2003 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 13, 2003 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 17, 2003 | ||
| Article revised. | Sep 27, 2002 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 01, 2002 | ||
| Article revised. | Sep 28, 2001 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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