Transnational Terrorism : Perspectives on Motives Measures and Impacts

Contents: I. 1. Changing face of terrorism/Chintamani Mahapatra. 2. US war on terrorism: military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq/Christopher S. Raj. 3. American response to Pakistan\'s cross-border terrorism/Amulya K. Tripathy. 4. Changing contours of US-China relations in the after math of 9/11/Monika Chansoria. 5. Terrorism and Pakistan: tracing the course from Harbinger to victim/Seema Sridhar. 6. US-Israel cooperation against West Asian terrorism/Ramesh Babu Kanneganti. 7. Sunni-shia Militant movements in Iraq/Shelly Johny. II. 8. Geo-politics of fossil fuels and terrorism/Narottam Gaan. 9. Western approach to international terrorism/Saroj Kumar Rath. 10. American counter-terrorism measures: an appraisal/Ashok Sharma. 11. Combating terrorism: Afro-Arab and Asian experience/Jagdish P. Sharma. 12. Terrorism in today\'s global scenario/Sudhir Chandra Jena. 13. Interpreting national interest: Bush\'s war on terrorism/Pradeep Harichandan. III. 14. Fear of the God fearing: Islam and terrorism in South Asia/Soumyajit Ray. 15. Nuclear terrorism: myth or reality?/Sitakant Mishra. 16. Naxalism and terrorism: assessing departures and similarities/Arvind Kumar. 17. Cyber terrorism: fact or fiction?/Padmalaya Mahapatra. 18. Trans-national terrorism: challenges for the media/Chitra Kanungo. 19. Suicide terrorism in Sri Lanka/Smitha. 20. Trans-national terrorism: a concept paper/Ashwini K. Tiwari. Index.

"No portion of the global is out of harm\'s way from the menace of terrorism. No segment of life is safe from terrorist attacks. Terrorism has become the noxious mace of non-state actors to challenge state sovereignty. It is also used as an instrument of state policy in some regions to trouble neighbouring open societies. The struggle of the international community to tackle this threat ever more appears to be a mirage. Scholars, officials, commentators, security agencies, all have been incessantly engrossed in devising new techniques and methods to diagnose the cause and deal with the consequences of terrorism. This edited volume is a humble attempt to compile thoughts and perspectives of Indian scholars ion this central theme of the 21 century and join the ongoing endeavor worldwide to seek solutions to this intractable peril. It is an earnest endeavour by the editors to amalgamate these perspectives on events and issues since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US."