Fathali M. Moghaddam is Professor, Department of Psychology and Director, Conflict Resolution Program, Department of Government, at Georgetown University. He is also Senior Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education and Research on Terrorism. Dr. Moghaddam has been published extensively on the psychology of intergroup conflict, subjective justice, radicalization, and terrorism. The American Psychological Association's Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence awarded Dr. Moghaddam its 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award. His most recent books include From the Terrorists' Point of View: What They Experience and Why They Come to Destroy (Praeger Security International, 2006) and Multiculturalism and Intergroup Relations: Psychological Implications for Democracy in Global Context (2008).

• PrefaceChapter 1. A dangerous new worldChapter 2. The psychological citizen and globalizationChapter 3. Universal needs and the psychological roots of radicalization and terrorismChapter 4. One world: Globalization as idealChapter 5. Fractured globalization: Globalization in practiceChapter 6. Intergroup contact and catastrophic evolutionChapter 7. Threatened identities, change and globalizationChapter 8. Universal rights and duties as explosive threatsChapter 9. The American Dilemma becomes globalAfterward. The veiled solitude: Women as the solutionReferencesNotes

Increasing globalization encourages terrorism, and the idea of 'one world' fuels violence: that's the concept in How Globalization Spurs Terrorism, which analyzes modern Islamic terrorism in the context of increasing world connections. College-level libraries strong in global studies will find this a fine acquisition.