Terror in the Western Mind

David Martin Jones is Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies, King's College London. He received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and taught there and at the National University of Singapore, the University of Tasmania, and the University of Queensland. His most recent book is History's Fools: The Pursuit of Idealism and the Revenge of Politics. Previously, he wrote Towards Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia, Political Development in Pacific Asia, Conscience and Allegiance in Seventeenth Century England, and The Image of China in Western Social and Political Thought. With M. L. R. Smith, he has co-authored Reinventing Realism: Australian Foreign and Defence Policy at the Millennium, ASEAN and East Asian International Relations, Asian Security and the Rise of China, Sacred Violence: Political Religion in a Secular Age, and The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency.M. L. R. Smith is Professor of Strategic Theory at King's College London and a former Head of its Department of War Studies. He received his Ph.D. from King's and began his academic career at the National University of Singapore. Subsequently, he has been a UK Ministry of Defence civil servant, working with the Royal Naval College, and later with the Joint Services Staff and Command College, and was Principal Lecturer at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is author/co-author of numerous books, including: Fighting for Ireland? The Military Strategy of the Irish Republican Movement, Dilemmas of Decommissioning, Reinventing Realism: Australian Foreign and Defence Policy at the Millennium, ASEAN and East Asian International Relations, The Strategy of Terrorism: How It Works and Why It Fails, Asian Security and the Rise of China, Sacred Violence: Political Religion in a Secular Age, and The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency: Strategic Puzzles, Problems and Paradoxes. His most recent book is Year of the Bat: Britain, China and the Coronavirus.