Historical Dictionary of Terrorism Third Edition

Editor’s ForewordTerrorism has repeatedly dogged and literally “terrorized” this supposedlymodern and enlightened age. It has regularly adopted new shapesand forms in keeping with the times. The causes have also evolved overthe years, as old problems are solved and new ones emerge, and recentlyit has gone high-tech, with devastating results in the numbers ofthose killed and maimed and the possibility of chemical, biological, andnuclear attacks. With the end of the cold war, it mutated and becomesmore sophisticated and potentially more dangerous. So as this booksadly shows, terrorism will remain with us for the foreseeable future.For a topic so widespread and diversified, it’s no simple task toexplain just which acts or groups are terrorist since one man’s terroristmay be another’s enforcer of justice. Still, this new, updated, andexpanded edition of the Historical Dictionary of Terrorism certainlymakes the situation much clearer by presenting an amazing amountof information in the dictionary’s hundreds of entries on main issues,techniques, and counterterrorism measures. The chronology puts terrorisminto a historical context, the introduction provides necessary backgroundinformation, and the list of acronyms allows readers to keeptrack of organizations best known by just a few letters. Finally, there isa comprehensive and well-structured bibliography.This third edition is again the work of Sean K. Anderson and StephenSloan; this time most of the updating and expansion was done byAnderson, and the introduction was amended by Sloan. Both of themhave excellent credentials. Dr. Sloan was in Indonesia at the time ofthe 1965–1966 coup and wrote A Study in Political Violence: TheIndonesian Experience. Later, while teaching political science at theUniversity of Oklahoma, he pioneered simulations of terrorist incidentsand formulated counterterrorist doctrine, resulting in a second book,Simulating Terrorism. His latest books are Low-Intensity Conflict,Corporate Aviation Security, and Terrorism: The Present Threat invii