FRONT COVER -- UNDERSTANDING TERRORISM: A SOCIO-ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS TERRORISM? CONCEPTS, DEFINITIONS AND CLASSIFICATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- WHY BOTHER DEFINING TERRORISM? -- BACKGROUND CONCEPT -- SYSTEMATIZED CONCEPT -- CLASSIFICATIONS AND TYPOLOGIES -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX: A CONCISE LIST OF PREVIOUS DEFINITIONS OF TERRORISM (ADAPTED FROM SCHMID, 2011, PP. 99FF) -- CHAPTER 2 ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF TERRORISM -- INTRODUCTION -- ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF TERRORISM: THEORY -- ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF TERRORISM: EVIDENCE -- DISCUSSION AND FUTURE RESEARCH -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3 MODELING TERROR ATTACKS: ACROSS-NATIONAL, OUT-OF-SAMPLE STUDY -- INTRODUCTION -- A BRIEF TOUR OF THE EMPIRICAL MODEL -- DESIGNING THE FORECAST -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4 MEASURING SECURITY -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- MODELLING SECURITY -- MEASURING SECURITY IN PRACTICE -- REQUIREMENTS OF A UNIVERSAL SECURITY INDICATOR -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5 MEASURING TERRORISM WITH THE GLOBAL TERRORISM INDEX -- INTRODUCTION -- PRINCIPLES FOR COMPOSITE INDICES AND WHY A COMPOSITE MEASURE OF GLOBAL TERRORISM IS NECESSARY -- METHODOLOGY OVERVIEW -- DATA SOURCES AND DEFINITION -- INDICATORS -- WEIGHTINGS OF THE INDICATORS -- POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENTS TO THE INDEX -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX: GLOBAL TERRORISM INDEX RANKS AND SCORES - 2011 -- CHAPTER 6 TERRORISM AND ECONOMIC SENTIMENT IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES -- INTRODUCTION -- DATA AND METHODOLOGY -- THE FINDINGS -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7 TERRORISM AS "A POLITICAL WORLD":IDENTITY, STRATEGY, VALUES -- INTRODUCTION.

IN THE MIND OF THE TERRORIST -- THE STRATEGIC LOGIC OF TERRORISM -- TERRORISM AND AXIOLOGICAL RATIONALITY -- TERRORISM AS A POLITICAL WORLD -- THE MAKING OF IDENTITIES IN A POLITICAL WORLD -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8 THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LONE WOLF TERRORISM -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DISECONOMIES OF TERRORISM -- THE OPPORTUNITIES AND CHOICES OF THE LONE WOLF TERRORIST -- THE LONE WOLF TERRORIST'S ATTACK METHODS: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHOICES -- PURSUING THE LONE WOLF TERRORIST -- THE 'COPYCAT' LONE WOLF TERRORIST ACT -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- CHAPTER 9 A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HOMEGROWN TERRORISM -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINITION OF HOMEGROWN TERRORISM -- THEORY OF SIMILARITY IN TARGETING -- DATA -- EMPIRICS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10 CLOSE TO THE EDGE: CYBERTERRORISM TODAY -- INTRODUCTION -- "HARD-ROCK" CYBERTERRORISM -- CYBERTERRORISM "LITE" -- CONCLUSIONS: WINNING THE HEARTS AND MINDS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11 SOME INSIGHTS ON THE LINK BETWEEN TERRORISM, ORGANISED CRIME AND 'NEW WARS' -- INTRODUCTION -- CHANGES IN CONTEMPORARY ARMED CONFLICTS -- LINKING TERRORISM TO ORGANISED CRIME -- ILLICIT ACTIVITIES OF TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.