CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. INTRODUCTION TO MULTIDIMENSIONAL WARFARE:
Defining Terrorism, Redefining War

2. THE CHALLENGES AND DILEMMAS FACED BY LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES COPING WITH MODERN ISLAMIST TERRORISM

3. THE PROPORTIONALITY DILEMMA IN COUNTERING TERRORISM

4. STATE INVOLVEMENT IN TERRORISM

5. THE HYBRID TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

6. IS LIBERAL DEMOCRACY THE SOLUTION TO TERRORISM—OR IS IT PART OF THE PROBLEM?

7. THE RATIONALE OF MODERN ISLAMIST TERRORISM

8. THE PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF AN ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION’S RATIONALE

9. UNDERSTANDING THE RATIONALE BEHIND DIFFERENT TYPES OF TERRORIST ATTACKS

10. THE RATIONALE OF THE MODERN ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION:
Hamas as a Case Study

11. CONCLUSION

 

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index