Terrorism Revisited

Paulo Casaca, Editor of SADF Book Series, is the founder and Executive Director of SADF, South Asia Democratic Forum. He is also the founder of the international cooperation association ARCHumankind, "Alliance to Renew Co-operation among Humankind”, of the “Euro Reform Initiative” and of the consultancy company on sustainable development, Lessmeansmore, Land and Energy Sustainable Systems. He was a fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the US in the first semester of 2010. Mr Casaca was a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009 where he chaired the delegation for relations with NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He is the author of several books and reports on economics and international politics. Dr. Siegfried O. Wolf is Senior Researcher (member) at the South Asia Institute (SAI), Heidelberg University, and Director of Research at South Asia Democratic Forum (SADF, Brussels). He is currently a visiting fellow at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST, Islamabad), an affiliated researcher at the Pakistan Security Research Unit (PSRU, Durham University). Formerly, he was a research fellow at IPW and Centre de Sciences Humaines (New Delhi, India). In addition to this, he worked as a consultant for the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany, he is member of the external expert group of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Task Force, Federal Foreign Office, Germany, and a political commentator for international media.

• Part I Reassessing Terrorism.- The Conceptual Discussion on Terrorism.- Terrorism revisited.- Part II Case Studies.- The Evolution and Ascension of Iran’s terror apparatus.- Evolution and Rise of Contemporary Jihadism: From the Muslim Brotherhood to IS.- Pakistan and State-Sponsored Terrorism in South Asia.- Antisemitism and the Global Jihad.- Political Violence Revisited: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.- The War on Terror.- How to face the present fanatic threat?.