Making of a Terrorist: Recruitment, Training, and Root Causes: Volumes 1-3 Book

VOLUME I: RECRUITMENT

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction to Volume I

PART I: PLACES AND MEANS OF TERRORIST RECRUITMENT

Innovative Recruitment and Indoctrination Tactics by Extremists: Video Games, Hip Hop, and the World Wide Web

Prisons as Terrorist Breeding Grounds

Communication and Recruitment of Terrorists

Terrorist Dot Com: Using the Internet for Terrorist Recruitment and Mobilization

Education and Radicalization: Jemaah Islamiyah Recruitment in Southeast Asia

Recruitment for Rebellion and Terrorism in the Philippines

PART II: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS

The New Children of Terror

Hamas Social Welfare: In the Service of Terror

Terrorism, Gender and Ideology: A Case Study of Women who Join the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC)

The Making of Suicide Bombers: A Comparative Perspective

Unresolved Trauma and the Thirst for Revenge: The Retributional Terrorist

PART III: IDEOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS

Political and Revolutionary Ideologies

The Role of Religious Ideology in Terrorist Recruitment

Christian Fundamentalism and Militia Movements in the United States

Political Islam: Violence and the Wahhabi Connection

Jihad Doctrine and Radical Islam

Zionism and the Pursuit of West Bank Settlements

Appendix A: Profiles of Terrorist Organizations

Appendix B: Al Qaeda Declarations of War

Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors

VOLUME II: TRAINING

Introduction to Volume II

PART I: TEACHING TOOLS AND DEVELOPMENTAL EXPERIENCES

When Hatred is Bred in the Bone: The Socio-Cultural Underpinnings of Terrorist Psychology

Training for Terrorism throughSelective Moral Disengagement

Cults, Charismatic Groups and Social Systems: Understanding the Behavior of Terrorist Recruits

The Psychological Power of Charismatic Leaders in Cults and Terrorist Organizations

Teaching Terrorism: Dimensions of Information and Technology

Mediated Terrorism: Teaching Terror through Propaganda and Publicity

PART II: CASE STUDIES OF TERRORIST LEARNING

Training for Urban Resistance: The Case of the Provisional Irish Republican Army

Teaching New Terrorist Recruits: A Review of Training Manuals from the Uzbekistan Mujahideen

Learning to Die: Suicide Terrorism in the 21st Century

The Al Qaeda Training Camps of Afghanistan and Beyond

The Bosnian Mujahideen: Origins, Training and Implications

Indoctrination Processes Within Jemaah Islamiyah

Christian Militia Training: Arming the Troops with Scripture, the Law and a Good Gun

The Hizballah Training Camps of Lebanon

The Human Factor in Insurgency: Recruitment and Training in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)

The Making of Aum Shinrikyos Chemical Weapons Program

Terrorist Training Centers Around the World: A Brief Review

Appendix: Examples of Training Manuals for Terrorism and Guerilla Warfare

Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors

VOLUME III: ROOT CAUSES

Introduction to Volume III

PART I: POLITICAL DIMENSIONS

Instability and Opportunity: The Origins of Terrorism in Weak and Failed States

Superpower Foreign Policies: A Source for Global Resentment

A Failure to Communicate: American Public Diplomacy in the Islamic World

The Complex Relationship between Global Terrorism and U.S. Support for Israel

Political Repression and Violent Rebellion in the Muslim World

Rejection of Political Institutions by Right Wing Extremists in the United States

PART II: RELIGIOUS AND SOCIOECONOMIC DIMENSIONS

Religious Sources of Violence

Terrorism and Doomsday

Fueling The Fires: The Oil Factor in Middle Eastern Terrorism

Socioeconomic and Demographic Roots of Terrorism

The Intersection of Terrorism and the Drug Trade

Terrorism and Export Economies: The Dark Side of Free Trade

PART III: ALTERNATIVE VIEWS ON ROOT CAUSES OF TERRORISM

Terrorism, Interdependence and Democracy

Human Security and Good Governance: A Living Systems Approach to Understanding and Combating Terrorism

Terrorism and the State: The Logic of Killing Civilians

Digging Deep: Environment and Geography as Root Influences for Terrorism

Dealing with the Roots of Terror

Appendix: Recommended Resources for the Study of Terrorism

Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors