Introduction / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin
Terrorism as a strategy of insurgency / Ariel Merari
Zealots and assassins / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin
Manifestations of terror through the ages / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin
The invention of modern terror / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin
Anarchist terrorists of the nineteenth century / Olivier Hubac-Occhipinti
Russian terrorism, 1878-1908 / Yves Ternon
The "golden age" of terrorism / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin
Lenin, Stalin, and state terrorism / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin
Terrorism in time of war : from war II to the wars of national liberation / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin
From 1968 to radical Islam / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin
The roots of Islamic radicalism / Philippe Migaux
Al qaeda / Philippe Migaux
The future of the Islamist movement / Philippe Migaux
Suicide operations : between war and terrorism / François Géré
The United States confronting terrorism / Arnaud Blin
Terrorism in south Asia / Rohan Gunaratna.
The history of terrorism : from antiquity to al Qaeda. ISBN 9780520247093. Published by University of California Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.