The history of terrorism: from antiquity to ISIS

Preface to the 2016 edition

Preface to the 2007 edition

1. Introduction / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin

2. Terrorism as a strategy of insurgency / Ariel Merari

Part I. The prehistory of terrorism. 3. Zealots and assassins / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin ; 4. Manifestations of terror through the ages / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin

Part II. Terrorism from 1789 to 1968. 5. The invention of modern terror / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin ; 6. Anarchist terrorists of the Nineteenth Century / Olivier Hubac-Occhipinto ; 7. Russian terrorism, 1878-1908 / Yves Ternon ; 8. The "Golden Age" of terrorism / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin ; 9. Lenin, Stalin, and State terrorism / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin ; 10. Terrorism in time of war: from World War II to the wars of national liberation / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin

Part III. Terrorism since 1968. 11. From 1968 to radical Islam / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin ; 12. The roots of Islamic radicalism / Philippe Migaux ; 13. Al Qaeda / Philippe Migaux ; 14. The future of the Islamist movement / Philippe Migaux ; 15. Suicide operations: between war and terrorism / François Géré ; 16. The United States confronting terrorism / Arnaud Blin ; 17. Terrorism in Southeast Asia

threat and response /

Rohan Gunaratna ; 18. Jihadism in the age of ISIS / Gérard Chaliand.