Historical Dictionary of Terrorism Third Edition

BIBLIOGRAPHY • 715them. As Internet resources documenting terrorism have also increased,the current edition updates and expands the final section, “Selected InternetResources.” As in the previous edition, the websites of terrorist orinsurgent groups are not directly cited, but the websites listed in this lastsection provide invaluable information for ordinary readers, counterterrorismscholars, and practitioners and allow interested readers to findlinks to terrorist websites on their own, if they so wish. It is again notedthat as the Internet is a fluid and rapidly changing information environment,so too the links presented in this bibliography may change, be disconnected,or their content radically revamped; the current format of theInternet itself may radically change or even become obsolescent beforethis edition runs its course. Having made these introductory comments,we can turn to further discussing the bibliography, which retains muchof its previous format although the content has been greatly updated.The literature on terrorism has burgeoned so much within the pastquarter-century that a few key bibliographies and general referencesare necessary starting points for any systematic research of the existingliterature on terrorism. The book International Terrorism: An AnnotatedBibliography and Research Guide by Augustus R. Norton and MartinH. Greenberg covers most of the literature until 1980 fairly comprehensively,with summary descriptions of key works. Amos Lakos’s Terrorism,1980–1990: A Bibliography is comprehensive, while EdwardF. Mickolus’s The Literature of Terrorism: A Selectively AnnotatedBibliography treats the more seminal books and articles and can be usedin conjunction with Lakos’s work. Since 1990 the volume of the literatureon terrorism has grown so much that few bibliographies publishedrecently can succeed in being both in depth and comprehensive. Indeed,many of the more recent bibliographies and chronologies have tended tocover a more specialized subset of terrorist or insurgent topics, focusingeither on a particular geographic region or on a particular set of groups ortactics. Fortunately the demand for fundamental reference works has ledto more up-to-date online terrorism bibliographies and chronologies nowavailable without cost, including the Annotated Bibliography of Terrorismand Counterterrorism Research, produced by James J. F. Forest ofthe U.S. Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center, the AnnotatedBibliography of Government Documents Related to the Threat ofTerrorism and the Attacks of September 11, 2001 by Kevin Motes, andalso the online bibliography on terrorism of the University of St. AndrewsCentre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. Many