Terrorism: A Selected Bibliography
Patrick S. O’Donnell
Department of Philosophy
Santa Barbara City College (2009)
Alexander, Y. and A. Nanes, eds. Legislative Responses to Terrorism. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1986.
Ali, Tariq, Christopher Hitchens, Anatol Lieven, Onora O'Neill and Jacqueline Rose (Andrew O’Hagan, moderator). “The War on Terrorism: Is There an Alternative?” London Review of Books, May 15th, 2002 (transcript of debate that took place in Logan Hall, Institute of Education, London on 15 May 2002).
Allison, Graham T. Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. New York: Times Books, 2004.
Alperovitz, Gar. The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
Anderson, Sean K. Historical of Terrorism. Dictionary. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2nd ed., 2009.
Art, Robert J. and Louise Richardson, eds. Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past. Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2006.
Atran, Scott. “Genesis of Suicide Terrorism,” Science (March 2003) Vol. 299: 1534-1539.
Atran, Scott. “Who Becomes a Terrorist Today?” Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol. II, 5 (March 2008): 3-10.
Barber, Benjamin. Fear’s Empire: War, Terrorism & Democracy. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.
Barnidge, Robert P., Jr. Non-State Actors and Terrorism: Applying the Law of State Responsibility and the Due Diligence Principle. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2007.
Bassiouni, M. Cherif. International Terrorism: A Compilation of UN Documents (1997-2001). New York: Transnational, 2001.
Bauhn, Per. Ethical Aspects of Political Terrorism: The Sacrificing of the Innocent. Lund:
Lund University Press, 1989.
Becker, Tal. Terrorism and the State: Rethinking the Rules of State Responsibility. Portland, OR: Hart, 2006.
Benjamin, David and Steven Simon. The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right. New York: Times Books, 2005.
Bianchi, Andrea, ed. Enforcing International Law Norms Against Terrorism. Portland, OR: Hart, 2004.
Bloom, Mia. Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Bobbitt, Philip. Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century. New York: Knopf, 2008.
Bongar, Bruce, et al., eds. The Psychology of Terrorism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Boroumand, Ladan and Roya Boroumand. “Terror, Islam, and Democracy,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 13, No. 2, April 2002, pp. 5-20.
Borradori, Giovanna, ed. Philosophy in a Time of Terror. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Boulden, Jane and Thomas G. Weiss, eds. Terrorism and the UN: Before and After September 11. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004.
Brooks, Rosa Ehrenreich, “War Everywhere: Human Rights, National Security, and the Law of Armed Conflict in the Age of Terrorism,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 153, 2004. Available at SSRN: or DOI:10.2139/ssrn.573321
Burbach, Roger. The Pinochet Affair: State Terrrorism and Global Justice. London: Zed Books, 2003.
Bushnell, P. Timothy, ed. State Organized Terror: The Case of Violent Internal Repression. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.
Chadwick, Edwin. Self-Determination, Terrorism, and the International Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1996.
Chaliand, Gerard and Arnaud Blin, eds. The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to Al Qaeda. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007.
Chomsky, Noam. The Culture of Terrorism. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1988.
Chomsky, Noam. Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002 ed.
Coady, C.A.J. “The Morality of Terrorism,” Philosophy, 60 (1985): 47-69.
Coady, C.A.J. “Terrorism and Innocence,” Journal of Ethics, 8 (2004): 37–58.
Coady, Tony (C.A.J.) and Michael O’Keefe, eds. Terrorism and Justice: Moral Arguments in a Threatened World. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2004.
Cohen, H.W., R.M. Gould, and V. W. Sidel. “The Pitfalls of Bioterrorism Preparedness” The Anthrax and Smallpox Experiences,” American Journal of Public Health, 94 (2004): 1667-1671.
Cole, David. Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism. New York: The New Press, 2nd ed., 2004.
Cole, David and James X. Dempsey. Terrorism and the Constitution. New York: The New Press, 3rd ed., 2006.
Cole, David and Jules Lobel. Less Safe, Less Free: Why America is Losing the War on Terrorism. New York: The New Press, 2008.
Corlett, J. Angelo. Terrorism: A Philosophical Analysis. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003.
Crenshaw, Martha, ed. Terrorism in Context. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
Crisp, Roger and Martin Warner, eds. Terrorism, Protest, and Power. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1990.
Cronin, Audrey Kurth and James M. Ludes, eds. Attacking Terrorism: Elements of a Grand Strategy. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004.
Daniels, Ronald J., Patrick Macklem and Kent Roach, eds. The Security of Freedom: Essays on Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Bill. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Danner, Mark. Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror. New York: New York Review of Books, 2004.
Drake, Richard. The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Dudziak, Mary L. September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.
Duffy, Helen. The “War on Terror” and the Framework of International Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Dworkin, Ronald. “Terror & the Attack on Civil Liberties,” The New York Review of Books, Vol. 50, No. 17, November 6, 2003.
Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Just War against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World. New York: Basic Books, 2003.
Enders, Walter and Todd Sandler. The Political Economy of Terrorism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Engeland, Anniseh van and Rachael M. Rudolph. From Terrorism to Politics. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008.
Etzioni, Amitai. Pre-empting Nuclear Terrorism in a New Global Order. London: Foreign Policy Centre, 2004.
Etzioni, Amitai and Jason S. Marsh, eds. Rights vs. Public Safety after 9/11: America in the Age of Terrorism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
Evangelista, Matthew. Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2008.
Falk, Richard A. The Great Terror War. Brooklyn, NY: Oliver Branch Press/Interlink, 2003.
Farer, Tom. Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neo-Conservatism: The Framework of a Liberal Grand Strategy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Fidler, David P. and Lawrence O. Gostin. Biosecurity in the Global Age: Biological Weapons, Public Health, and the Rule of Law. Stanford, CA: Stanford Law and Politics/Stanford University Press, 2008.
Fitzpatrick, Joan. “Speaking Law to Power: The War Against Terrorism and Human Rights,” European Journal of International Law (2003) 14 (2): 241-264.
Franke, Volker C., ed. Terrorism and Peacekeeping: New Security Challenges. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005.
Frey, Bruno S. Dealing with Terrorism: Stick or Carrot? Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004.
Frey, R.G. and Christopher W. Morris, eds. Violence, Terrorism and Justice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Galtung, Johan. Pax Pacifica: Terrorism, the Pacific Hemisphere, Globalisation and Peace Studies. Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2005.
Gambetta, Diego. “Reason and Terror: Has 9/11 Made it Hard to Think Straight?” Boston Review, April/May 2004. Available:
Gambetta, Diego, ed. Making Sense of Suicide Missions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Gareau, Frederick H. State Terrorism and the United States: From Counterinsurgency to the War on Terrorism. Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2004.
George, Alexander, ed. Western State Terrorism. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Gerges, Fawaz. The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Gilbert, Paul. Terrorism, Security & Nationality: An Introductory Study in Applied Political Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1994.
Gilbert, Paul. New Terror, New Wars. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003.
Giraldo, Jeanne K. and Harold A. Trinkunas, eds. Terrorism Financing and State Responses? A Comparative Perspective. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007.
Glass, Charles. “Cyber-Jihad,” London Review of Books, Vol. 28, No. 5, March 9th, 2006.
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Goldsmith, Jack. The Terror Presidency: Law and Justice inside the Bush Administration. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007.
Goodin, Robert E. What’s Wrong with Terrorism? Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2006.
Govier, Trudy. A Delicate Balance: What Philosophy Can Tell Us about Terrorism. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002.
Greenberg, Karen J., ed. The Torture Debate in America. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Guillemin, Jeanne. Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Han, Henry H., ed. Terrorism and Political Violence: Limits and Possibilities of Legal Control. New York: Oceana, 1993.
Hare, R.M. “On Terrorism,” Journal of Value Inquiry, 12 (1979): 240-249.
Harmon, Christopher C. Terrorism Today. New York: Routledge, 2nd ed., 2007.
Hassan, Riaz. ‘Suicide Attacks: Life as a Weapon,’ International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) Newsletter 14, June 2004: 8-9.
Heere, Wybo P., ed. Terrorism and the Military: International Legal Implications. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2003.
Held, Virginia. How Terrorism is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Heryanto, Ariel. State Terrorism and Political Identity in Indonesia: Fatally Belonging. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Hess, Stephen and Marvin Kalb. The Media and the War on Terrorism. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2003.
Heymann, Philip B. Terrorism, Freedom and Security: Winning without War. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
Heymann, Philip B. and Juliette N. Kayyem. Protecting Liberty in an Age of Terror.Cambridge, MA: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Press/MIT Press,
Higgins, Rosalyn and Maurice Flory, eds. Terrorism and International Law. London: Routledge, 1997.
Hocking, Jenny. “Counterterrorism and the Criminalisation of Politics: Australia’s New Security Powers of Detention, Proscription and Control,” Australian Journal of Politics & History, Vol. 49/3 (2003): 355-371.
Hoffman, Bruce. Inside Terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press, revised ed., 2006.
Honderich, Ted. Terrorism for Humanity: Inquiries in Political Philosophy. London: Pluto Press, revised ed., 2002.
Honderich, Ted. After the Terror. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003.
Horgan, John. The Psychology of Terrorism. London: Frank Cass, 2005.
Howard, Russell D. and Reid L. Sawyer, ed. Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Understanding the New Security Environment. Guilford, CT: McGraw- Hill/Dushkin, 2008.
Ibrahim, Raymond, ed. The Al Qaeda Reader. New York: Broadway Books, 2007.
Ignatieff, Michael. The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004.
Jackson, Richard. Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counterterrorism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005.
Jenkins, Brian Michael. “International Terrorism: Choosing the Right Target,” RAND Paper, P-6563. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1980.
Jenkins, Brian Michael. “The Psychological Implications of Media-Covered Terrorism,” RAND Paper, P-6627. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1981a.
Jenkins, Brian Michael. “The Study of Terrorism: Definitional Problems,” RAND Paper, P-6597. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1981b.
Jenkins, Brian Michael. “Terrorism: Between Prudence and Paranoia,” RAND Paper, P-6946. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1983.
Jenkins, Brian Michael. “The Likelihood of Nuclear Terrorism,” RAND Paper, P-7119. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1985.
Jenkins, Brian Michael. “Defense against Terrorism,” Political Science Quarterly, 101 (1986): 779-781.
Juergensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 3rd ed., 2003.
Karawan, Ibrahim A., Wayne McCormack and Stephen E. Reynolds, eds. Values and Violence: Intangible Aspects of Terrorism. New York: Springer, 2008.
Kassimeris, George, ed. Playing Politics with Terrorism: A User’s Guide. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Khan, L. Ali. “A Legal Theory of International Terrorism,” 19 Connecticut Law Review,945 (1987).
Khan, L. Ali. A Theory of International Terrorism: Understanding Islamic Militancy. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2006.
Khashan, Hilal. “Collective Palestinian Frustration and Suicide Bombings,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 6, 2003: 1049-1067.
Khatchadourian, Haig. The Morality of Terrorism. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.
Kimmerling, Baruch. Politicide: Ariel Sharon’s War against the Palestinians. London: Verso, 2003.
Koh, Jae-myong. Suppressing Terrorist Financing and Money Laundering. New York: Springer, 2006.
Kretzmer, David. “Targeted Killings of Suspected Terrorists: Extra-Judicial Executions or Legitimate Means of Defense?,” The European Journal of International Law, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2005: 171-212.
Lambert, Joseph J. Terrorism and Hostages in International Law: A Commentary on the Hostages Convention, 1979. Cambridge, UK: Grotius, 1990.
Levinson, Sanford, ed. Torture: A Collection. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Lichtblau, Eric. Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice. New York: Pantheon, 2008.
Luban, David. Legal Ethics and Human Dignity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Lustick, Ian S. Trapped in the War on Terror. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
May, Thomas. “Funding Agendas: Has Bioterror Defense been Overprioritized?” American Journal of Bioethics, 5 (4) (2005): 34-44.
Mayer, Jane. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals. New York: Doubleday, 2008.
McCormick, Gordon H. “Terrorist Decision Making,” Annual Review of Political Science,
6 (2003): 473-507.
Meisels, Tamar. “How Terrorism Upsets Liberty,” Political Studies, 53 (2005): 162-181.
Mentan, Tatah. Dilemmas of Weak States: Africa and Transnational Terrorism in the Twenty- First Century. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (John O’Neill, trans.). Humanism and Terror: An Essay on the Communist Problem. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1969.
Metraux, Daniel A. “Religious Terrorism in Japan: The Fatal Appeal of Aum Shinrikyo,” Asian Survey, 35 (1995): 1140-1154.
Michael, George. Confronting Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism in the USA. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Miller, Seumas. Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008.
Mockaitis, Thomas R. The “New” Terrorism: Myths and Reality. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008.
Moghadam, Assaf. The Roots of Terrorism. New York: Chelsea House Publ., 2006.
Moghaddam, Fathali M. From the Terrorists’ Point of View. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International/Greenwood, 2006.
Mueller, John. Overblown: How Politicians, the Terrorism Industry and Others Stoke National Security Fears. New York: Free Press, 2006.
Murphy, John F. State Support of International Terrorism: Legal, Political, and Economic Dimensions. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989.
Murphy, Sean D. “International Law, the United States, and the Non-military War against Terrorism,” European Journal of International Law (2003) 14 (2): 347-364.
Nacos, Brigette L. Mass-Mediated Terrorism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
Nesi, Guiseppe, ed. International Cooperation in Counter-Terrorism. Portland, OR: Ashgate, 2006.
Norris, Pippa, Montague Kern and Marion Just, eds. Framing Terrorism: The News Media, The Government and the Public. New York: Routledge, 2003.
O’Connell, Mary Ellen. “When is a War Not a War? The Myth of the Global War on Terror,” ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law, 2005, Vol. 12, No. 2: 1-5.
Pape, Robert A. Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. New York: Random House, 2005.
Paust, Jordan J. “An Introduction to and Commentary on Terrorism and the Law,” 19 Connecticut Law Review (1987), 697.
Paust, Jordan J. Beyond the Law: The Bush Administration’s Unlawful Responses in the “War” on Terror. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Perdue, William D. Terrorism and the State: A Critique of Domination Through Fear.Westport, CT: Praeger, 1989.
Pillar, Paul R. Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2001.
Pion-Berlin, David and George A. Lopez. “Of Victims and Executioners: Argentine State Terror, 1975-1979,” International Studies Quarterly, 35 (1991): 3-86.
Pious, Richard M. The War on Terrorism and the Rule of Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Presbey, Gail M., ed. Philosophical Perspectives on the “War on Terrorism.” Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2007.
Primoratz, Igor, ed. Terrorism: The Philosophical Issues. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Primoratz, Igor, “Terrorism,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2007 Edition), Edward N. Zalta(ed.), URL =
Ramraj, Victor V., Michael Hor and Kent Roach, eds. Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Rapoport, David C. and Yonah Alexander, eds. The Morality of Terrorism: Religious and Secular Justifications. New York: Columbia University Press, 2nd ed., 1989.
Reich, Walter, ed. Origins of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1998.
Rejali, Darius. Torture and Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Richardson, Louise. What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat. New York: Random House, 2006.
Ronzitti, Natalino, ed. Maritime Terrorism and International Law. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1990.
Ruthven, Malise. “The Rise of the Muslim Terrorists,” The New York Review of Books, (Vol. LV, No. 9), May 29, 2008. Available:
Sageman, Marc. Understanding Terror Networks. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Sands, Phillipe. Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Scheffler, Samuel. “Is Terrorism Morally Distinctive?” The Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2006: 1-16.
Saul, Ben. “Two Justifications for Terrorism: A Moral Legal Response,” Foreign Policy in Focus(FPIF)Report, January 10th, 2006. Available:
Saul, Ben. Defining “Terrorism” in International Law. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Schmid, Alex P. and Albert J. Jongman, et al. Political Terrorism. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2nd ed., 1988.
Seigman, Henry. “Is ‘Moral Equivalency’ Really So Wrong?” Los Angeles Times, June 18, 2006.
Silke, Andrew, ed. Research on Terrorism: Trends, Achievements and Failures. London: Frank Cass, 2004.
Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter. “On Primoratz’s Definition of Terrorism,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 8 (1999): 115-120.
Sluka, Jeffrey A., ed. Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Smelser, Neil J. The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2007.
Smith, Clive Stafford. Eight O’Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice at Guantánamo Bay. New York: Nation Books, 2007.
Sorel, Georges. Reflections on Violence. New York: Dover, 2004 ed. (1908).
Soto, Theodore P. “The Morality of Terrorism,” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 35, No. 3, June 2002: 12271263. Available: or
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Sottiaux, Stefan. Terrorism and the Limitation of Rights: The ECHR and the U.S.Constitution. Portland, OR: Hart, 2008.
Steinhoff, Uwe. On the Ethics of War and Terrorism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Stepanova, Ekaterina. Terrorism in Asymmetrical Conflict: Ideological and Structural Aspects. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.