Addresses some of the central topics in the analysis of contemporary terrorism.

Market civilization and its clash with terror / Michael Mousseau -- Behind the curve : globalization and international terrorism / Audrey Kurth Cronin -- Motives for martyrdom : Al-Qaida, Salafi Jihad, and the spread of suicide attacks / Assaf Moghadam -- The strategies of terrorism / Andrew H. Kydd and Barbara F. Walter -- Why terrorism does not work / Max Abrahms -- Correspondence : does terrorism ever work? : the 2004 Madrid train bombings / William Rose and Rysia Murphy, Max Abrahms -- What terrorists really want : terrorist motives and counterterrorism strategy / Max Abrahms -- Correspondence : what makes terrorists tick / Erica Chenoweth, Nicholas Miller, and -- Elizabeth McClellan, Hillel Frisch, and Paul Staniland, Max Abrahms -- Deterring terrorism : it can be done / Robert F. Trager and Dessislava P. Zagorcheva -- Friends like these : counterinsurgency and the war on terrorism / Daniel L. Byman -- NATO's international security role in the terrorist era / Renée de Nevers -- Assessing the dangers of illicit networks : why Al-Qaida may be less dangerous than many think / Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni and Calvert Jones -- How Al-Qaida ends : the decline and demise of terrorist groups / Audrey Kurth Cronin.