Alexander, Yonah, and Michael S. Swetnam. Usama bin Laden's al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network. Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2001. Alexander, Yonah, and Michael S. Swetnam. Usama bin Laden's al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network. Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2001.
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Alexander, Yonah, Michael S. Swetnam, and.Herbert M. Levine. ETA: Profile of a Terrorist Group. Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2001.
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Alexander, Yonah, ed. Combating Terrorism: Strategies of Ten Countries. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
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Alexander, Yonah, ed. Counterterrorism Strategies: Successes and Failures of Six Nations. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2006.
Cassidy, Parameters 37.2 (Summer 2007), notes that the aim of this book "is to glean best practices in order to arrive at some generalizations about the way ahead on ... efforts to counter terrorism.... The book prescribes policy fixes which are not necessarily epiphanous or timely, but are indeed correct and cogent." It is "a well-written and well-researched contribution to the ... corpus of books on counterterrorism." It is also "a relatively easy read."
For Peake, Studies 52.2 (Jun. 2008) and Intelligencer 16.1 (Spring 2008), this work "provides an interesting review of terrorism as experienced by six countries [the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Egypt, and Sri Lanka] and viewed by academics, but it presents nothing new and certainly no strategies for the future that have not already been implemented."
Alexander, Yonah, and Edgar H. Brenner, eds. Terrorism and the Law. Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2001.
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Alexander, Yonah, and Milton Hoenig, eds. Super Terrorism: Biological, Chemical, and Nuclear. Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2001.
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Alexander, Yonah, and Michael B. Kraft, eds. Evolution of U.S. Counter-Terrorism Policy. 3 vols. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008.
Kalic, Proceedings 134, no. 5 (May 2008), identifies this work as a "collection of more than 600 documents that detail how America has wrestled with terrorism as a security threat.... While the vast numbers of documents are initially overwhelming, strong introductory chapters assist in outlining their basic tenets."
Alexander, Yonah, and Stephen Prior, eds. Terrorism and Medical Responses: U.S. Lessons and Policy Implications. Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2001.
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Alexander, Yonah, and Michael S. Swetnam, eds. Cyber Terrorism and Information Warfare: Threats and Responses. Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2001.
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Anderson, William Henry. "Terrorism: The Underlying Causes." Intelligencer14, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2004): 53-57.
Psychiatrist Dr. Anderson seeks "to cast light on aspects of the psychology and cultural practice" of terrorists. He considers terrorism "with an analogy from medicine -- that of terrorism as a cancer."
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1. Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2004.
2. Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2002.
Avella, Valerie N.Y. "The Domestic War on Terrorism: Fighting the Roots of Jihadist Extremism in the United States." Defense Intelligence Journal 15, no. 1 (2006): 13-24.
"[C]ounterterrorism intelligence collection and exploitation efforts should focus on all jihadist extremist tactics," not just on the tactic of terrorism." The Intelligence Commuity "should not ignore rhetoic simply because it lacks the physical manifestation of violence."
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