Historical Dictionary of Terrorism
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS • TERRORISM Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest, No. 38 ANDERSON HISTORICAL The United States Department of Defense defines terrorism as “the calcu- SLOAN DICTIONARY lated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; THIRD EDITION intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of OF goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.” Although terrorism SECOND EDITION has been around for centuries, the al Qa’eda attacks of September 11, 2001, HISTORICAL emphasized to the world, and most particularly the United States, just how DICTIONARY TERRORISM deadly it can be. OF TERRORISM This third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Terrorism presents the full spectrum of political violence through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on major terrorist groups and their leaders, significant terrorist events, cyberterrorism, counterterrorism, and social-science concepts regarding the motivations and group dynamics of terrorist groups. Sean K. Anderson and Stephen Sloan move beyond the gut reaction we have to this volatile and divisive topic and instead provide a reliable and objective reference on terrorism. SEAN K. ANDERSON is professor of political science at Idaho State University in Pocatello. He has researched Iranian politics and Islamic funda- mentalism since working in the Pars News Agency in Iran in the early 1980s. STEPHEN SLOAN is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He pioneered terrorist simulations to assist domestic and foreign law-enforcement departments, and he has contributed greatly to formulating a counterterrorism doctrine for the military and evaluating U.S.
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