This thoroughly updated edition with expanded coverage explores the impact of terrorism on economics, public health, religion and pop culture, and also includes details of ethical issues and debates relating to terrorism.

Six years after publication of the first edition of the best-sellingEncyclopedia of Terrorism, much has changed on the national security scene. Despite the dark promises of Osama bin Laden following the 9/11 attacks, the United States has not experienced any major domestic terror incidents. Al-Qaeda itself is believed to be a severely crippled organization. But while U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq--not to mention the arrival of the Obama administration, a new balance of power within Congress, and an increasingly fragile economic picture--have significantly affected the national security picture, the threat of economic chaos and massive loss of life due to terror attacks has not abated. Indeed, in July 2008 analysts pointed out that even a relatively small terrorist organization could present a dire threat, with some experts arguing that a biological, chemical, or even nuclear attack on a major U.S. city is all but inevitable. In this highly charged, rapidly shifting environment, we are pleased to present theThe SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism, Second Edition, a thoroughly updated and expanded edition of the original, highly regarded reference work. Nearly 100,000 words of new material will be added, along with fully updated original entries, and expanded coverage. New introductory essays will explore the impact of terrorism on economics, public health, religion, and even pop culture. Ethical issues such as the role of torture in interrogations, competing notions of security versus liberty, and the debates over FISA legislation and Guantanamo Bay will also be covered. Two dozen entries on significant recent events—such as the London bombings, Chechen attacks on Russian interests, and the rescue of Ingrid Bettancourt—and some 60 additional new entries will restore the work as an up-to-the-minute, natural first-stop for researchers.

Forensics and Terrorism - Yossi Almog, Jay Levinson
Intifada - Bader Araj, Robert J. Brym
International Relations and Terrorism - Hall Gardner
Economics and Terrorism - Tahmina Hadjer, Gerald Schneider
Training of Terrorists - Brian Jackson
Kneecapping - Brenda Lutz, James Lutz
Guildfor Four - Brenda Lutz, James Lutz
Homeland Security, Office of - Kenneth J. Ryan
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - Kenneth J. Ryan
Organization of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb - Hamoud Salhi
Al Shabab - Hamoud Salhi
Al-Masri, Abu Ayyub - Hamoud Salhi
Intelligence Gathering - Harold Scott
San Diego Daniel Andreas - Brent Smith
Chechen Incidents - Aglaya Snetkov
Death Squads - Mark Ungar
Lindh, John Walker - Lorenzo Vidino
Padilla, Jose - Lorenzo Vidino
Bloody Sunday - Kris Brown
Decommissioning Process - Kris Brown
Lord′s Resistance Army - Ikaweba Bunting
Iraq War - Brian Burton
Religious and Spiritual Perspectives - David B. Cook
London Underground Bombings - Stuart Croft
New Terrorism - Steven Emerson
Gender-Based Terrorism - Kathryn Farr
Guantanamo Bay - David Glazier
Khmer Rouge - Dipak Gupta
Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists - Dipak Gupta
Afghan Arabs - Mohammed Hafez
Al-Qaeda in Iraq - Mohammed Hafez
Al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab - Mohammed Hafez
Ansar al-Islam - Mohammed Hafez
Chlorine Bombings, Iraq - Mohammed Hafez
Tupamaros - Jennifer Holmes
Afghanistan War - Najib Lafraie
Ethnic Cleansing - Benjamin Lieberman
Bashir, Abu Bakar - Samuel M. Makinda
Bali Nightclub Bombing - Samuel M. Makinda
Insurance and Terrorism - Erwann Michel-Kerjan
Criminal Prosecutions of Terrorists - Harvey Morley
Long, William Andrew, Murder of - Marie Palladini
Black September - Rafael Reuveny
9/11 Commission - Bruce Riedel
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives - Ann Robertson
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Ann Robertson
Central Intelligence Agency - Ann Robertson
Justice Department, US National Security Agency - Ann Robertson
National Security Council - Ann Robertson
Mossad - Ann Robertson
Special Air Service Regiment - Ann Robertson
Special Operations Wing - Ann Robertson
THREATCON Levels - Ann Robertson
United Nations - Ann Robertson
Gadahn Adam Yahiye - Michael Ronczkowski
Interrogation Techniques - Kenneth J. Ryan
Rendition, Extraordinary - Kenneth J. Ryan
Torture Debate - Kenneth J. Ryan
Popular Culture, Terrorism in - Olga Semukhina
Mumbai 2008 Attacks - Mary Sisson
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan - Mary Sisson
Phineas Priesthood - Kenneth Stern
Airport Security - Joseph Szyliowicz
Women Terrorists - Rhiannon Talbot-English
Madrid Bombings - Anna Lisa Tota
Law and Terrorism - Clive Walker
Zetas, Los - Phil Williams
Fourteen Words, The - Leonard Zeskind
Christian Identity - Leonard Zeskind
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion - Leonard Zeskind
Racial Holy War - Leonard Zeskind
White Aryan Resistance (WAR) - Leonard Zeskind
Awda Al Aziz - Harvey Morley