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Introduction: Terrorism and Its Future
The Changes Wrought by the Fourth Wave
Part 1: History and the Invention of Terrorism
1. The History and Emergence of Modern Terrorism
2. Writings on Tyranny and the Origins of the Philosophy of the Bomb
Russia’s Terrorism as a Doctrine
3. Turkey, India, and the Russian Example
Terrorism by Indian Nationalists and Former Pacifists
4. Propaganda by the Deed
Arms and the Class Struggle: Spain and the United States
Terrorism and Nationalism
5. The Philosophy of the Bomb and the Far Right
The Right Wing Elsewhere
The History of Terrorism
6. Final Remarks on the History of Terrorism
Part 2: Contemporary Terrorism
7. The New Face of Terrorism
Why Was IS Successful?
8. A Truncated History of IS
The Iraq War and the Emergence of Al-Qaeda in Iraq
How Iraqi Politics Created Islamic State
The Arab Spring, Al-Qaeda, and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
The Jabhat Al-Nusra Threat, the Khorasan Group, and the Co-Optation of Islamic State’s Credibility
Stymied Iraqi Reforms, Islamic State’s Decline Since 2014, and the Future of Terrorism
9. Beyond Islamic State
Religion and a Globalized Decentralized Ideology
Al-Qaeda and Islamic State: Battle of Egos in the Process of Final Victory
The (Not) Forever War: What Is Beyond Islamic State?
10. The Battlefields of the Future
Yemen: A Regional Cold War Fought Through Proxies
Libya: A Mosaic Civil War
Afghanistan: A Legacy of Failed State Reconstruction
Where to Next?
11. Terrorism in Europe and in the United States
The Lone-Wolf Phenomenon
The Foreign Fighter Flow
The Islamic State Threat to Europe
The Terrorism Threat in the United States
Terrorism Going Forward?
Part 3: Reflections on Terrorism
12. The Culture of Modern Terrorism
IS and the Nature of Evil
Jihad Cool
13. Terrorism Misinterpreted
Terrorism and the Psychiatrists
14. Economic Explanations of Terrorism
Terrorist Organizations as Industrial Activity
Why Is Terrorism Effective?: The Club Goods Theory
Terrorism as Theater and the Macro/Micro Divide Within Conflicts
The Economics of Terrorism
15. Religious Violence and Terrorism
Suicide Terrorism
Refugees
16. Terrorism: The Future
Lessons from the Current Wave of Terrorism
When Terrorism Prevails?
So What About This Current Wave of Terrorism?
Epilogue: Terrorism Under President Trump
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Also by Walter Laqueur
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