Essays discuss the history of terrorism, political violence in Europe, the U.S., Italy, Spain, and Northern Ireland, and an international approach to stopping it.

Terrorism in the United States : background and prospects /Samuel T. Francis -- The European community and terrorism / Juliet Lodge -- Political violence in Northern Ireland / Arthur Aughey -- The Italian experience / Alison Jamieson -- Terrorism and the Spanish state. The violent bid for Basque autonomy / Edward Moxon-Browne -- A plan of action / Peter Janke -- From a national to an international response / David Schiller.