Title page -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction: Comparing National Counter-Terrorism Strategies -- The Nature of Contemporary Terrorism -- The Nature of Today's Terrorism and Organized Crime Threats: A French Perspective -- Where Do Terrorists Come From? -- Global Counter-Terrorism Trends -- Terrorism Challenges in an Interdependent World -- The Grammar of Terrorism: Rethinking the Concept of Asymmetric Threats -- Times, They Have Changed: Terrorism and the Asymmetric Threat Complex -- National Counter-Terrorism Strategies -- The Fateful Triangle: Identity Politics, Security Policy and Anglo-Irish Relations -- The Nature of the Terrorist Threat and National Responses to Terrorism: The British Case -- Terrorism and the Politics of Anti-Terrorism in Turkey -- Religion-Based Terrorism in Turkey -- The Turkish Counter-Terrorism Experience -- Asymmetric Threats and Counter-Terrorism Strategies in Russia -- Russia's System to Combat Terrorism and Its Application in Chechnya -- Russia's Responses in the War on Terror: Legal, Public Policy, Institutional and Operational Strategies -- Countering Terrorism in the US: The Fallacy of Ignoring the Crime-Terror Nexus -- Author Index.