Introduction to terrorism -- Nature of the beast: defining terrorism -- Beginnings: the causes of terrorism -- Terror from above: state terrorism -- Terror from below: dissident terrorism -- Class struggle and national liberation: the terrorist left -- Race and order: the terrorist right -- For the faith and profit: religious and criminal terrorism -- Terrorist spillovers: international terrorism -- Tools of the trade: tactics and targets of terrorists -- Role of the media -- Terrorism in the United States -- Responding to terror: The options -- What next? the future of terrorism

1. Terrorism