Terrorism, Armed Struggle

Blood Year is an unsparingly honest, self-critical analysis of the collapse of western counterterrorism strategy and the subsequent rise of Islamic...

In 1969, several young men met on a rainy night in Kabul to form an Islamist student group. Their aim was laid out in a simple typewritten statemen...

Mexico is currently undergoing a crisis of violence and insecurity that poses serious threats to democratic transition and rule of law. This is the...

Terrorism Explained to Our Kids, takes the form of a dialogue between the author and his teenage daughter. Using her ill-defined fears as the start...

In this urgently needed book, Marc Crepon addresses the nature of hatred and its manifestations in international and domestic terrorism, racism, wa...

Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a leftist dissident who spent sixteen years as a political prisoner and now lives in exile. He describes with precision and ...

This third comprehensive chronology of international terrorist attacks covers 2016, during which the Islamic State suffered several battlefield ...

This detailed account of the Irish Republican Army's bombing campaign against Britain during 1939-1940 describes how initial attacks on economic...

The Gunpowder Plot is perhaps the most famous and well-documented event in British Early Modern history. This means the story can be told through o...

For more than two decades the United States has responded to global terrorism primarily as a physical threat, avoiding direct confrontation with th...

Osama bin Laden is dead but al-Qa'ida remains the CIA's 'number one threat'. With branches in strategic hotspots from Yemen and Somalia to North Af...

In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains: away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the margin...

It has been alleged that pirates and maritime terrorists present a largely common threat to international maritime security. This book drives to th...

Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only s...

They have accessed the office of the Secretary of Defense, the control systems for U.S. electric power grids, and the plans to protect America's la...

Fountainhead of Jihad is the first in-depth study of the history, links, and organisational logic of the Haqqani network. Drawing upon a wealth of ...

Every war has its cause and every conflict its context, none more so than the centuries-old ideological battle between Christian and Muslim theolog...

Fast-moving, self- propelled 'violent images' have radically changed the nature of insurgency in the modern world. The global media has revolutioni...

'Its existence is known only by the effects of its action.' Author Curt Riess on what happens when an organisation goes underground. Written in 19...

Hezbollah - Lebanon's 'Party of God' - is a multifaceted organisation: it is a powerful political party in Lebanon, a Shia religious and social mov...

Clara Usiskin has spent eight years investigating the 'War on Terror' and its effects in the East and Horn of Africa, documenting hundreds of cases...

It has long been an article of faith that the United States does not talk to terrorists - that to engage in dialogue with groups such as Hamas, Hez...

Pirates and Emperors, Old and New constitutes a collection of extended essays written between 1986 and 2001 which explore how selected incidents of...

Kim Barker is not your typical foreign correspondent. Raised in Montana, at thirty she had barely been overseas, spoke only English, and knew littl...

Seeds of Terror will reshape the way you think about the Wests enemies, revealing them less as ideologues and more as criminals who earn billions o...

In A History of the World Since 9/11 Dominic Streatfeild expertly combines history, biography and investigative journalism to show how a massacre o...

State secrecy is increasingly used as the explanation for the shrinking of public discussion surrounding national security issues. The phrase that...

Peace and Conflict is a new biennial publication that provides key data and documents trends in national and international conflicts ranging from i...