The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction

Walter Laqueur0-19-511816-2, 9780195118162

In The New Terrorism Walter Laqueur, one of the foremost experts on terrorism and international strategic affairs, recounts the history of terrorism and, more importantly, examines the future of terrorist activity worldwide. Laqueur argues that as a new quasi-religious extreme right rises, with more personal and less ideological motivations than their left-wing counterparts, it is only a matter of time before the attainability of weapons of mass destruction creates a terrifying and unstable scenario. From militant separatism in Kashmir to state-sponsored extremism in Libya and ecoterrorism in the West, The New Terrorism offers a thorough account of terrorism in all its past and current manifestations. Most importantly, it casts a sober eye to the future, when the inevitable marriage of technology and fanaticism will give us all something new to think about.

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Table of contents :
EEn
……Page 1
Cover
……Page 2
Copyright Info
……Page 6
TOC
……Page 7
Acknowledgments
……Page 9
Introduction
……Page 13
Terrorism and History……Page 18
Origins of Terrorism
……Page 20
Modern Terrorism
……Page 22
The Philosophers of Mass Destruction
……Page 23
Words Into Deeds
……Page 26
Terrorism In the Twentieth Century
……Page 29
After World War I
……Page 31
After World War II
……Page 32
Latin American Terrorism
……Page 34
Left-Wing Terrorism In Germany and Italy
……Page 37
America and Japan
……Page 39
Turkey and the Palestinians
……Page 40
Terrorism Old and New: IRA and ETA
……Page 42
A Profile of Terrorism
……Page 46
A Terrorist Personality?
……Page 48
Terrorist Strategies
……Page 50
Tools of the Trade
……Page 51
Terrorism and Publicity
……Page 53
Counterterrorism
……Page 55
Terrorism’s Legacy
……Page 56
Imagining Doomsday
……Page 59
From Fiction to Fact
……Page 64
A Brief History of Chemical Warfare
……Page 66
Chemical Weaponry Today
……Page 69
A Brief History of Biological Warfare
……Page 71
The Future of Germ Warfare
……Page 73
The Nuclear Threat
……Page 80
Cyberterrorism
……Page 84
Terrorist Motives: Marx, Muhammad, and Armageddon
……Page 89
Religion and Madness
……Page 91
The Terrorist Personality
……Page 100
Fanaticism
……Page 107
Suicide
……Page 110
Terrorism, Psychopathology, and Literature……Page 111
Terror and the Far Right
……Page 115
Terror In the Heartland
……Page 117
The Turner Diaries
……Page 124
From Words to Acts
……Page 126
Right-Wing Terrorism In Germany
……Page 129
Islamic Radicalism
……Page 137
Algeria
……Page 140
Israel and the Palestinians
……Page 144
Hamas
……Page 148
Suicide Missions
……Page 150
Israeli Terrorism
……Page 157
India, Pakistan, and the Sikhs
……Page 160
State Terrorism
……Page 166
The Soviet Bloc
……Page 168
Khadafi’s Adventures
……Page 178
Iranian Foreign Terrorism
……Page 182
Saddam Hussein Et Al.
……Page 188
Exotic Terrorism
……Page 194
Peru: The Shining Path
……Page 195
Colombia: Drugs and Terrorism
……Page 198
The Tamil Tigers
……Page 201
The Lord’s Rsistance Army
……Page 207
Ecoterrorism
……Page 209
The Animal Liberationists
……Page 214
Terrorism and Organized Crime
……Page 220
Narcoterrorism
……Page 221
Colombia
……Page 222
Elsewhere in Latin America
……Page 224
Terrorism and Gangsterism
……Page 226
Chechnya
……Page 228
Left and Right at the Crossroads
……Page 236
Psychiatry and Terrorism
……Page 241
Conspiracy Theories
……Page 243
Freemen and the Twilight of the Gods
……Page 247
Religion and Tomorrow’s Terrorism
……Page 248
Sectarians and Science Fiction
……Page 250
Preparing for the Apocalypse
……Page 251
Tomorrow’s State-Sponsored Terrorism
……Page 253
The Main Danger Zones
……Page 255
Population Pressure
……Page 259
Megacities out of Control
……Page 260
Nuclear Terrorism
……Page 264
Biological and Chemical Weapons and Their Targets
……Page 267
Cyberterrorism and the Future
……Page 272
The Earthquake Machine and the Death Ray
……Page 273
Types of Terrorists
……Page 275
The Natural History of Panic
……Page 281
“Just Terrorism” or Just Bloodlust?
……Page 283
The Muslim Question
……Page 287
Rules of Engagement?
……Page 288
Terrorism and History
……Page 293
Weapons of Mass Destruction
……Page 295
Terrorist Motives
……Page 297
Terror and the Far Right
……Page 298
Religion and Terrorism
……Page 299
State Terrorism
……Page 301
Exotic Terrorism
……Page 303
Terrorism and Organized Crime
……Page 305
Terrorism Today and Tomorrow and Terrorism of the Future
……Page 306
Index
……Page 311