Routledge Handbook of Transnational Terrorism 1032353198, 9781032353197

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
CONTENTS
List of Figures and Tables
Note on Editor
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
PART I: The Strategic and Systemic Dimension of Terrorism
2. Strategic Terrorism
3. Geopolitical Game Changers and Their Impact on Global Terrorism
4. The Systemic Dimension of Jihadist Violence: A Root Cause Analysis of Jihadist Terrorism
5. Jihadist Violence: New Terrorist Actors/Groups Emerging – Who will be the Key Players in the Next Decade?
6. From Networks to Social Identity: A Dialectical Model of Terrorism
7. The Atomization of Political Violence
8. The Case of Hybrid Terrorism: Systemic Lessons from Recent European Plots
PART II: Technology and Radicalization
9. The Emerging Terrorist Technological Landscape
10. Online Territories of Terror: The Multiplatform Communication Paradigm and the Information Ecology of the Web3 Era
11. The Virtualisation of Terror: Violent Extremism on the Internet Today
12. The Evolution of Hybrid Radicalization: From Small Group to Mass Phenomenon
13. The Emergence of Decoupled Radicalisation and Franchise Terrorism: McJihad
14. The Crime-Terror Nexus in Europe and its Implication for Jihadist Radicalisation
15. Counter-Narratives
16. Ideological Polarization and Societal Disruption
PART III: Right-Wing Extremism and Stochastic Terrorism
17. The Current and Future Threat Posed by Islamist and Right-Wing Extremist Terrorism in Europe
18. Generation Z and Terrorism
19. Stochastic Terrorism: Mass Media Escalation Against Victim Groups as a Radicalization Platform for Terrorist Individual Perpetrators?
20. The Heightened Threat of U.S. Domestic Terrorism
21. Right-Wing Extremists and State Deniers in Europe: Current Narratives, Trends and Actors
PART IV: Forecast, Trends, Scenarios and Tactics
22. How to Forecast and Predict Future Terrorist Warfare
23. Recent Trends in International Terrorism and Their Impact on Counterterrorism Ambitions
24. Key Trends in Transnational Terrorism: A Software-Based Key Factor Foresight Analysis
25. Scenarios of Transnational Terrorism: Trends and Developments – A Fact-Based Threat Assessment
26. Foiled Versus Launched Terror Plots: Some Lessons Learned
27. Hybrid Loans and Tactics of Jihadism: Will Hybridity Remain the Narrative of Convergent, Politically Motivated Violence?
28. Terrorism and Hybrid Threats: Analyzing Common Characteristics and Constraints for Countermeasures
PART V: Political Islam, Jihadism, Psychology and Counter-Terrorism
29. Legalistic Islamism: The Transition from Political Islam to Jihadism
30. Jihadism and True Islam: Discourses and Realities
31. Jihadism in the West: A Post-Caliphate Transitory Phase
32. Becoming a Jihadist: A Psychoanalytical Perspective
33. Understanding the Motivations of “Lone Wolf” Terrorists: The “Bathtub” Model
34. Evolving Perspectives on Psychopathology and Terrorism
35. European Approaches to Risk Assessment of Terrorist Offenders
36. A Model for Countering Violent Extremism and Promoting Disengagement from Terrorism
37. Crisis and Catastrophes, Security and Resilience: On the Significance of Finding Definitions for Security Policy
PART VI: COVID-19, Resilience and Terrorism
38. COVID-19 and Global Terrorism Pandemics
39. The False Promise of Salafi-Jihadists: Rhetoric and the Response to COVID-19
40. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: Reassessing the Evidence
41. A Legacy of Disorder, Desperation, and Defiance: The Possible Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Future Course of Terrorism
42. Hybrid Jihad: A Trend Scenario for Transnational Terrorism
43. Terrorist Threats Post-COVID-19
PART VII: Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda and Beyond
44. The Security Situation in Afghanistan and its Implications for Global Terrorism
45. Afghanistan Under Taliban Rule: Consequences for Global Security and Terrorism Against the West
46. Afghanistan After the Withdrawal of the West: The Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and IS-K
47. Global Jihad: Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State’s Struggle for Power and Global Dominance
48. Al-Qaeda—20 Years After 9/11
49. The Taliban-Al-Qaeda Nexus: Brothers in Arms
Index