Tangled roots social and psychological factors in the genesis of terrorism

Introduction : managing terror : the devilish traverse from a theory to a plan / Jeff Victoroff

Ch. 1. Knowledge claims and the study of terrorism / Michael Stohl

Ch. 2. Tyranny of data : going beyond theories / Dipak K. Gupta

Ch. 3. Have motivations for terrorism changed? / Martha Crenshaw

Ch. 4. The psychology of terrorism : "syndrome" versus "tool" perspectives / Arie W. Kruglanski

Ch. 5. Understanding terrorism : old assumptions, new assertions, and challenges for research / John Horgan

Ch. 6. Crusades and Jihads : an existential psychological perspective on the psychology of terrorism and political extremism / Tom Pyszczynski, Abdollhossein Abdollahi, Jeff Greenberg and Sheldon Solomon

Ch. 7. Identifying cross-national global terrorist hot spots / Gary LaFree, Nancy Morris, Laura Dugan and Susan Fahey

Ch. 8. Economic methods and the study of terrorism : an evaluation / Todd Sandler

Ch. 9. The radical community : a comparative analysis of the social background of ETA, IRA, and Hezbollah / Peter Waldmann

Ch. 10. Terrorists and the societies from which they come / Jitka Maleckova

Ch. 11. Research note : who supports terrorism? : evidence from fourteen Muslim countries / C. Christine Fair and Bryan Shepherd

Ch. 12. Individual motivations for joining terrorist organizations : a comparative qualitative study on members of ETA and IRA / Rogelio Alonso

Ch. 13. Adolescents' willingness to engage in political conflict : lessons from the Gaza Strip / Brian K. Barber and Joseph A. Olsen

Ch. 14. Sympathy for terrorism : possible interaction between social, emotional, and neuroendocrine risk factors / Jeff Victoroff, Samir Qouta, Barbara Celinska, Rula Abu-Safieh, Janice Adelman and Naftali Stern

Ch. 15. Terrorist behavior in hostage taking : policy issues and research directions / Margaret A. Wilson

Ch. 16. The empirical study of the terrorist threat / Nadejda V. Tarabrina and Yulia V. Bykhovets

Ch. 17. Religion and culture in the Arab world : evidence of links to political violence / Hassan Hanafi

Ch. 18. Defusing human bombs : understanding suicide terrorism / Anne Speckhard

Ch. 19. Moral agents, immoral violence : mechanisms of moral disengagement in Palestinian suicide terrorism / Mohammed M. Hafez

Ch. 20. The Palestinian human bombers / Shaul Kimhi and Shemuel Even

Ch. 21. A multi-causal analysis of the genesis of suicide terrorism : the Chechen case / Khapta Akhmedova and Anne Speckhard

Ch. 22. Possible causes and motives of nuclear and radiological terrorism in the light of empirical data on smuggling incidents of nuclear materials / Alex Schmid and Robert Wesley

Ch. 23. Countering Islamist militancy : an epidemiologic approach / Jerrold M. Post

Ch. 24. Suicide terrorism : modeling group dynamics and individual behavior / Linda O. Valenty Shepherd

Working group 1 : reducing the threat of substate terrorism : interventions to reduce the efficacy of committed terrorists / Linda O. Valenty, Dipak Gupta, Shaul Kimhi, Gary LaFree, Tom Pyszczynski and Cindy Storer

Working group 2 : preventing substate terrorist groups from recruiting and retaining young members / Jeff Victoroff, Mohammed Hafez, Jerrold Post, Arie Kruglanski, Brian Barber, Anne Speckhard, Khapta Akhmedova, Barbara Celinska, Catherine Ahmad and Sarnoff Mednick

Working group 3 : conflict prevention and conflict resolution : recommendations for diplomatic, political, military, economic, legal and human rights policies likely to prevent or resolve tension provoking conflict / Roger Sambrook, Jitka Maleckova, Tamas Pick, Todd Sandler, Alex Schmid and Michael Stohl

Minority report from working group 3 : perspectives, comments and recommendations / Anna-Lena Svensson-McCarthy and Felicia Pratto

Minority report from working group 3 : ten rules for preventing and combating terrorism / Alex P. Schmid