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COMBATTING TERRORISM: LITERATURE ON FUTURE TRENDS IN TERRORISM

NCJ Number
148084
Date Published
1993
Length
170 pages
Annotation
This document lists and provides abstracts for approximately 200 documents focusing on future trends in domestic and international terrorism.
Abstract
The documents include books, journal articles, reports, and other publications issued in the late 1980's and early 1990's. Each document citation includes bibliographic information and key words. Topics include media coverage of terrorism, Federal research and development efforts aimed at developing technical tools to combat terrorist attacks, factors that are likely to cause an increase in terrorism, strategies for addressing terrorism, terrorist tactics, nuclear terrorism, the history of terrorism in specific countries, and individual terrorist groups. Other topics include international cooperation to address terrorism, research on terrorism, differences between terrorism and guerrilla-based insurgencies, and the causes and effects of terrorist conflicts worldwide.