Understanding Homeland Security
Recommended Readings
The following publications provide discussions on the New Terrorism.
Bergen, Peter L. 2001. Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Berko, Anat. 2009. The Path to Paradise: The Inner World of Suicide Bombers. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International.
Cragin, Kim, Peter Chalk, Sara A. Daly, and Brian A. Jackson. 2007. Sharing the Dragon’s Teeth: Terrorist Groups and the Exchange of New Technologies. Santa Monica, CA: RAND.
Dolnik, Adam. 2007. Understanding Terrorist Innovation: Technology, Tactics and Global Trends. London: Routledge.
Frantz, Douglas and Catherine Collis. 2007. The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets—And How We Could Have Stopped Him. New York: Twelve Books.
Hafez, Mohammed M. 2007. Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press.
Gerges, Fawaz A. 2009. The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Glucklich, Ariel. 2009. Dying for Heaven: Holy Pleasure and Suicide Bombers. New York: HarperOne.
Gunaratna, Rohan. 2002. Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror. New York: Columbia University Press.
Katz, Samuel M. 2001. The Hunt for the Engineer: How Israeli Agents Tracked the Hamas Master Bomber. New York: Fromm International.
Kegley, Charles W., Jr., ed. 2002. The New Global Terrorism: Characteristics, Causes, Controls. New York: Prentice Hall.
Levi, Michael. 2009. On Nuclear Terrorism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Lutz, James M. and Brenda J. Lutz. 2008. Global Terrorism. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge.
Mueller, Robert. 2009. Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism From Hiroshima to Al Qaeda. New York: Routledge.
Oliver, Anne Marie and Paul F. Steinberg. 2005. The Road to Martyrs’ Square: A Journey Into the World of the Suicide Bomber. New York: Oxford University Press.
Pape, Robert Anthony. 2005. Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. New York: Random House.
Powell, William. 1971. The Anarchist Cookbook. New York: Lyle Stuart.
Ranstorp, Magnus and Magnus Normark, eds. 2009. Unconventional Weapons and International Terrorism: Challenges and a New Approach. New York: Routledge.
Sageman, Marc. 2008. Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Scheuer, Michael. 2011 Osama bin Laden. New York: Oxford University Press.
Siniver, Asaf, ed. 2010. International Terrorism Post-9/11: Comparative Dynamics and Responses. London: Routledge.
Stern, Jessica. 1999. The Ultimate Terrorists. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Thornton, Rod. 2007. Asymmetric Warfare: Threat and Response in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
Tucker, Jonathan B., ed. 2000. Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Zubay, Geoffrey et al., eds. 2005. Agents of Bioterrorism: Pathogens and Their Weaponization. New York: Columbia University Press.