by Robert A. Pape

Content

Introduction

1. The Growing Threat

2. Explaining Suicide Terrorism

Part I: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism

3. A Strategy for Weak Actors

4. Targeting Democracies

5. Learning Terrorism Pays

Part II: The Social Logic of Suicide Terrorism

6. Occupation and Religious Difference

7. Demystifying al-Qaeda

8. Suicide Terrorist Organizations Around the Globe

Part III: The Individual Logic of Suicide Terrorism

9. Altruism and Terrorism

10. The Demographic Profile of Suicide Terrorists

11. Portraits of Three Suicide Terrorists

12. A New Strategy for Victory

Afterword: Why the War on Terrorism Is Heading South

Acknowledgments

Appendix I: Suicide Terrorist Campaigns, 1980-2003 and Iraq through 2005

Appendix II: Occupations by Democratic States, 1980-2003

Appendix III: Salafism in Major Sunni Muslim Majority Countries

Notes

Index