This new Routledge Major Work collection of the best scholarly research and serious writing on Al Qaeda will be welcomed by researchers, students, and counter-terrorism specialists as the go-to resource. The gathered materials are mainly drawn from scholarly journals of the first rank and chapters from the most authoritative books. Also included are a small number of newspaper and magazine articles which have already made an enduring impact on what is a very new field of research.
Al Qaeda is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.
Contents
VOLUME I
PART 1: The Evolving Threat
1 Rethinking Terrorism and Counterterrorism Since 9/11
bruce hoffman
2 What Changed and What Did Not on 9/11
louise richardson
3 Reevaluating Al Qa’ida’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Capabilities
peter bergen
4 Al Qaeda: Killers and Bunglers
michael sheehan
5 The Changing Face of Al Qaeda and the Global War on Terrorism
bruce hoffman
6 The Iraq Effect: The War in Iraq and its Impact on the War on Terrorism
peter bergen and paul cruickshank
7 Europe’s Jihadist Dilemma
peter r. neumann
8 Al Qaeda Strikes Back
bruce riedel
9 The Next Generation of Terror
marc sageman
10 The Myth of Grass-Roots Terrorism: Why Osama bin Laden Still Matters
bruce hoffman
11 Does Osama Still Call the Shots? Debating the Containment of al Qaeda’s Leadership
marc sageman and bruce hoffman
12 Al-Qaeda Central: An Assessment of the Threat Posed by the Terrorist Group on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border
barbara sude
13 Evaluating the Al Qa’ida Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland