Product Description: The Lockwood Analytical Method for Prediction (LAMP) is a systematic technique for predicting short-term, unique behaviors. Using primarily qualitative empirical data, LAMP allows the analyst to predict the most likely outcomes for specific research questions across a wide range of intelligence problems, such as cyber threats in the U...read more

Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century helps readers understand terrorism, responses to it, and current trends that affect the future of this phenomenon.   Putting terrorism into historical perspective and analyzing it as a form of political violence, this text presents the most essential concepts, the latest data, and numerous case studies to promote effective analysis of terrorist acts. Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century objectively breaks down the who-what-why-how of terrorism, giving readers a way both to understand patterns of behavior and to more critically evaluate forthcoming patterns.

Examining the known facets of contemporary terrorism explaining what terrorism is, who carries it out, how terrorist acts are committed, this volume also analyzes the laws and special forces which nations within the international community have created to meet this challenge. The text also predicts forthcoming patterns of terrorism in the 21st century and aims to help undergraduate students evaluate the dimensions of the problems presented by contemporary terrorism, and challenges them to develop solutions.

Product Description: On the second anniversary of 9/11, The Jamestown Foundation began publishing the Terrorism Monitor. Jamestown has since added Terrorism Focus to its body of analytical work on terrorism. These publications have served the media, policymaking, intelligence, and academic communities as the only periodicals in circulation devoted to examining the inner-workings of terrorist groups and the global implications of terrorist acts...read more

Product Description: The United States is currently engaged in a military effort that has been characterized as the 3long war.2 This study explores the concept of long war and identifies ways in which it might unfold as well as the implications for the Army and the U...read more

Product Description: This new study is devoted to understanding how international terrorism is shaped, how it evolves and what we can expect in the future. Drawing upon research and methods outside the traditional focus, and by taking both a theoretical approach and a new practical predictive perspective, it delivers a fresh and fascinating contribution to terrorism studies...read more

Product Description: The second volume of Unmasking Terror reviews trends and significant events in international terrorism, with selected articles from the journals Terrorism Monitor and Terrorism Focus. Through concise and informative analysis, Unmasking Terror provides invaluable information on terrorist groups that is not often covered in the mainstream media...read more

This book is designed to enable the reader to understand what terrorism is and, based on that understanding, to realistically assess future trends of this phenomenon. The book, written to be "user-friendly" for those not familiar with this unique form of political violence, putting terrorism in historical perspective, offers evaluative tools which can be applied to terrorist acts to assess the critical characteristics of what, who, why and how related to these acts in a non-pejorative fashion, including examples and case studies to facilitate this analysis. It evaluates various national and international responses to terrorism, in terms of their effectiveness and their legal ramifications, and offers predictions about future trends in terrorism based on current patterns, with graphs and statistics from the U.S. Department of State to make visualization of such patterns easier.

Product Description: For over a year the Jamestown Foundation has published objective, fact-driven analyses of terrorist organizations and their operations, through its Terrorism Monitor publication. As the only periodical in circulation devoted to examining the war on terror and the struggle against al Qaeda, the newsletter offers a unique perspective comprising some of the world's leading experts on international terrorism...read more

Product Description: Terrorist attacks happen after years of careful planning; however, these plans always leave a trail of activities―a road map to the terrorists' forthcoming actions. These indicators include terrorist travel, movement of weapons, training, target surveillance, and tests of security...read more

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