Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations and Acronyms
1: Introduction: Terrorism and Asymmetry
2: Ideological patterns of terrorism: radical ethno-nationalism
3: Religious and quasi-religious extremism
4: Organizational forms of terrorism: local and regional levels
5: Organizational forms of transnational jihadi movement
6: In lieu of conclusion: back to nationalism and politics?
Select bibliography
About the Author
Index

About the Author

Dr Ekaterina Stepanova is a Project Leader of the Armed Conflicts and Conflict Management Project at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). She is also a Senior Researcher on leave of absence from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, where she heads a research group on unconventional security threats at the Center for International Security. Her research and publications focus on
armed conflict management and post-conflict peacebuilding, the political economy of conflicts, and unconventional/non-military security threats such as terrorism and transnational crime, particularly in
conflict-related contexts.

Reviews

In this innovative theoretical volume, the author focuses on the extremist ideologies and structural capabilities of terrorist groups.
*Joshua Sinai, Perspectives on Terrorism*