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Sociology of Terrorism - Sites
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America's War Against Terrorism
Presented by the University of Michigan's Government Document Department.
Contains many useful links to articles and sites that focus on the events of September
11th, counterterrorism, previous attacks and more. - lib.umich.edu/govdocs/usterror.html
Attack on America: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and Terrorism
East Carolina University's Joyner Library hosts this site. Focuses on the Taliban
and Osama Bin-Laden. Links to useful articles on these subjects. -
lib.ecu.edu/govdoc/terrorism.html
GlobalSecurity.org: Attack on America
Contains satellite photos, news reports, information on Afghanistan, information
on Operation Enduring Justice and Operation Noble Eagle, and more. -
globalsecurity.org/military/ops/penttbom.htm
Hot Topics: Terrorist Attacks on the U.S. September 11th, 2001.
This well organized web site is produced by Evergreen University in Washington
State. The site includes Federal Government Sources, New York City Sources, photos, and
much more. The Federal Government Sources are organized by Agency. -
evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/hotopics/sept11/index.html
Terrorism Law and Policy - JURIST
Available online at: jurist.law.pitt.edu/terrorism.htm
A guide to documents published by government and private research agencies. Topics include
Terrorism and Terrorists, discussing the background of terrorism, terrorists/terrorist
groups, and threat assessments; Counterterrorism Policies, containing the latest
statements from U.S. and international agencies and U.S. reports, hearings, and policy
studies; anti-terrorism laws; counterterrorism and human rights; and terrorist trials.
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. 2004.
Available online at: gpoaccess.gov/911/index.html
9/11 and Terrorist Travel. Staff Report of the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
Available online at: 9-11commission.gov/report/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf
Center for Defense Information:
Terrorism.
Available online at: cdi.org/program/index.cfm?programid=39
CDI's Terrorism Program is designed to provide insights, in-depth analysis and facts on
the military, security and foreign policy challenges as the United States, and the world,
faces terrorism. The project will look at all aspects of fighting terrorism, from
near-term issues of response and defense, to long-term questions about how the United
States should shape its future international security strategy.
FindLaw Legal News: Special Coverage: War on Terror.
Available online at: news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/terrorism/
Extensive terrorism resources from FindLaw. The news section brings together the latest
headlines on terrorism, Al Qaeda, detentions at Guantanamo Bay, the latest threat
conditions, and more. Also find commentary, legal cases, documents (including the report
of the 9-11 Commission and related testimony), and discussion boards. Includes resolutions
from Congress, NATO, and other organizations.
International Information Programs: USINFO.STATE.GOV.
Available online at: usinfo.state.gov/is/international_security/terrorism.html
IIP designs, develops, and implements a variety of information initiatives and strategic
communications programs, including Internet and print publications, traveling and
electronically transmitted speaker programs, and information resource services.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo.
Available online at: nsgtmo.navy.mil/JTFgtmo/
News, press releases, photos, MP3 audio clips, and biographies.
MIPT Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism. Available
online at: db.mipt.org/mipt_rand.cfm
RAND-MIPT Terrorism Incident Database - serves to monitor all terrorism incidents
worldwide, both domestic and international, and to make them available to the public.
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.
Monograph on Terrorist Financing. Staff Report to the Commission.
Available online at: 9-11commission.gov/report/911_TerrFin_Monograph.pdf
Office of Management and Budget. OMB 2003 Report to Congress on Combating
Terrorism. September 2003.
Available online at: whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg/2003_combat_terr.pdf
"Unclassified report on government-wide spending to combat terrorism." It
provides information on Executive Branch spending, programmatic initiatives, and priority
terrorism-related areas for FY 2002 through FY 2004.
Patterns of Global Terrorism. Washington, U.S. Department of State, 2003.
Available at:state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2003/c12108.htm
SITE Institute (The Search for International Terrorist Entities).
Available online at: siteinstitute.org/
U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Available online at: dhs.gov/dhspublic/
USAF Counterproliferation Center. Air National Guard Conflict 21.
Available online at: c21.maxwell.af.mil/cts-home.htm
"Our mission is to identify and develop innovative ideas for research, leveraging of
resources, and institutional changes needed to meet the challenges of homeland security,
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and future conflict scenarios. This includes
the matching up of research results (from any source) with ANG, USAF, and DoD issues and
problems."
WebMDHealth.com.
Available online at: my.webmd.com/webmd_today/home/default.htm
Use the search box to locate information on bioterrorism, highly contagious diseases and
vaccine programs.
Television Archive: a library of world perspectives concerning September 11, 2001
Archive of television broadcasts all over the world regarding the September 11
attacks. - client.alexa.com/tvarchive/html/
usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/
terrorism.com/index.shtml
fas.org/terrorism/
nato.int/terrorism/index.htm
jurist.law.pitt.edu/terrorism.htm
emergency.com/cntrterr.htm
terrorismanswers.com/
terrorismanswers.com/thisweek/
fema.gov/library/terrorf.htm
ict.org.il/
fas.org/irp/threat/terror.htm
whitehouse.gov/response/
un.org/terrorism/
redcross.org/services/disaster/keepsafe/unexpected.html
cia.gov/terrorism/
cdi.org/terrorism/
terrorismlibrary.com/
state.gov/www/global/terrorism/stop_terrorism.html
whitehouse.gov/response/
cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/mideast/
terrorism.com/terrorism/groups.shtml
iht.com/frontpage.html
nolalive.com/terror/news/
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2001/war_on_terror/
Books On Sociology of Terrorism
Understanding
Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues Book by Clarence Augustus Martin, Feb. 2009 - Review - "I am very favorably
impressed with this book. The author is well informed and an excellent writer. The
recommended readings, Web sites, boxes, tables and the like provide very attractive
features. There is an abundance of very good historical and current examples. I would
adopt this book for my courses and look forward to its publication." -- Frank Hagan
Packaging
Terrorism: Co-opting the News for Politics and Profit (Communication in the Public
Interest) Book by Susan Moeller, Dec. 2008 - Review - "Susan Moeller trains her
scholarly eye on the role of the media in our understanding of modernday terrorism. What
she has produced is a valuable, important and timely study, essential reading for all of
us." Marvin Kalb, Edward R. Murrow Professor Emeritus at Harvard
"This is a sober and timely analysis of the toxic mix of politics, terrorism and the
media since 9/11. It lays bare the price paid by the West, but also points to a better way
forward." Richard Sambrook, Director, BBC Global News
The
Spread of Islamikaze Terrorism in Europe: The Third Islamic Invasion Book by Raphael Israeli Sep. 2008
Mass-Mediated
Terrorism: The Central Role of the Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism Book by Brigitte L. Nacos - Review - The second edition of the award-winning
Mass-Mediated Terrorism features a new chapter on public opinion and is updated with
analyses of the Iraq war, increasing terrorist attacks abroad, and subsequent
counterterrorism measures. It also includes new information on Al-Jazeera and the use of
the Internet in terrorist efforts.
Terrorism,
Organised Crime and Corruption: Networks and Linkages Book by Leslie Holmes - Review - There has been a marked growth in the
awareness of corruption, organised crime and terrorism in recent years, especially since
the end of the Cold War. Yet the linkages and resonances between these three forms of
anti-social and anti-state behaviour are still not sufficiently recognised.
On
Nuclear Terrorism Book by Michael Levi - Review - "This is serious stuff. If you want to know how a
terrorist organization might manage to mount a nuclear attack - or how to stop them - you
need to read this book." - Thomas C. Schelling, 2005 Nobel Laureate in
Economics"
"We wish that the current and incoming national security advisor and secretaries of
State, Defense and Homeland Security read Michael Levi's On Nuclear Terrorism." --
Los Angeles Times, January 1, 2008
Terrorism
in the 21st Century (5th Edition) Cynthia C. Combs (Aug 9, 2008)
Terrorism
and Homeland Security: Thinking Strategically About Policy by Paul Viotti,
Michael Opheim, and Nicholas Bowen (Paperback - Jun 17, 2008)
Terrorism
and Counterterrorism: Understanding the New Security Environment, Readings and
Interpretations (Textbook) by Brigadier General USA (Ret),
Russell D. Howard, Major USA, Reid L. Sawyer, and Natasha E Bajema (Paperback Book - Feb
22, 2008)
Terrorism
and Homeland Security: An Introduction Jonathan R. White (2008)
Global
Terrorism: A Beginner's Guide (Oneworld Beginner's Guides) by Leonard Weinberg
(Paperback Book - Aug 25, 2008)
How
Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida by Seth G. Jones
(Paperback Book - Jul 25, 2008)
How
to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down
the Deadliest Man in Iraq by Matthew Alexander and John Bruning (Hardcover Book -
Nov 1, 2008)
Will
Terrorists Go Nuclear? by Brian Michael Jenkins, Sen. Gary Hart, and Gov. James
Gilmore (Hardcover Book - Sep 23, 2008)
Thinking
Like a Terrorist: Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent by Mike German
(Paperback Book- Jan 7, 2008)
The
Canons of Jihad: Terrorists' Strategy for Defeating America by Jim Lacey
(Paperback - Mar 5, 2008 Book)
Middle
Eastern Terrorism: From Black September to September 11 by Mark Ensalaco
(Hardcover - Nov 30, 2007) Middle
Eastern Terrorism: From Black September to September 11 by Mark Ensalaco (Nov 30, 2007
Book)
Terrorism
Today (Cass Series on Political Violence) by Christop Harmon (Hardcover Book -
Dec 12, 2007)
The
Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to al-Qaeda by
Jerrold M. Post (Hardcover Book - Dec 10, 2007)
Combating
Terrorism, Strategies and Approaches by William C. Banks, Mitchel B. Wallerstein,
and Renée de Nevers (Paperback Book - Oct 2, 2007)
Essentials
of Terrorism: Concepts and Controversies by Clarence Augustus Martin (Paperback
Book - Nov 28, 2007)
Terrorism
in Perspective Sue G. Mahan and Pamala L. Griset (Sep 10, 2007)
The
Terrorism Reader (Routledge Readers) by D. Whittaker (Aug 3, 2007)
What's
Wrong With Terrorism? Book by Robert E. Goodin
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