Combating Terrorism

by Rohan Gunaratna (Editor)

Specialists in terrorism and security, along with a few old fashion political scientists and legal scholars, examine the development of governmental, societal, and international strategies to combat both extremism and its vicious by-product, terrorism. (The "Arab" prefix to "terrorism," now being assumed, is skipped, but the text corrects any confusion.) Among their topics are ideological work to counter the jihadi view of jihad, leveraging intelligence to protect ports and seaways, and patterns of the vehicles used for the flow of white finances into black areas. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

327 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2005

About the author

Rohan Gunaratna is the head of the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. By its size, ICPVTR is one of the largest counter terrorism research and training centres in the world.