Handbook of Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: A Global Survey of Threats, Tactics, and Characteristics examines the most current and significant terrorist and insurgent groups around the world. The purpose is to create a descriptive mosaic of what is a pointedly global security challenge.
The volume brings together conceptual approaches to terrorism, insurgency, and cyberterrorism with substantive and empirical analyses of individual groups, organisations, and networks. By doing so, not only does the coverage highlight the past, present, and future orientations of the most prominent groups, but it also examines and illustrates their key characteristics and how they operate, including key leaders and ideologues. Highlighting specific, individual groups, the chapters collectively present a robust and comprehensive outlook on the current geography of terrorism and insurgency groups operating in the world today.
This comprehensive volume brings the collective expertise and knowledge of more than 50 academics, intelligence and security officials, and professionals together, all of whom are considered subject experts in their respective areas of research and practice. The volume is based on both desk-based and fieldwork conducted by experts in these areas, incorporating analyses of secondary literature but also the use of primary data including first-hand interviews on the various groups regions of operation, their tactics, and how their ideologies motivate their actions.
I. Conceptual Matters
1. Conceptualizing Insurgency
2. The Architecture
of Counterinsurgency: From Classical to Quantum and Beyond
3. A Typology of
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
4. Western Counterinsurgency Theoretical
Development in the 20th and 21st Centuries
5. Terrorism: Looking Though the
Definitional Kaleidoscope
6. Epistemological Foundations of Terrorism
7.
Religion as a Source of Terrorism
8. Correlations Between Terrorism,
Extremism, and Fundamentalism
9. Wars for Limited Political Aims Not
"Limited War"
10. Examining the Roots of Modern Urban Terrorism: M19 and
Shining Path in the Western Hemisphere
11. Blending Counterinsurgency to
Defeat Hybrid Threats
12. The Crime-Terror Nexus
13. State Sponsored
Terrorism: Perspectives on its Practice, Evolution, and Impacts
14. The
Terror of War: Ever Present and Always in Error?
15. From Nation State
Terrorism to Market State Terrorism
16. Homegrown Terrorism
17. The Rise in
Lone Wolf Attacks: Myth or Reality
18. Non-State Armed Group Transition to
Party Politics
19. Jihadist Governance in the Middle East
20. The Anatomy of
Terror: The Agents and Audiences of Political Terror
21. Franchising
Terrorism and Insurgencies: From Al-Qaeda, ISIS, to Boko Haram
22. High Value
Targeting and International Societys "Warfare Trap"
23. Disengaging from
Armed Conflict: Cameroons Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration of
Former Boko Haram Militants and Anglophone Separatists
24. From "Black
Widows" to "ISIS Brides:" Female Recruitment Practices of Islamist Terrorist
Networks
25. Cyber-Terrorism: A Concept in Flux
26. Turning to Terror Online:
Social Media, Recruitment, and Radicalization
27. Cyber Counter-Terrorism:
States, Security Services, and Investigations in a Digital Age
28. The
Importance of Security Awareness in Healthcare: Threat Vectors, Environmental
Specifics, and Mitigation Opportunities Part II. The Cases. Africa.
29. Jihad
in the Horn of Africa: Somalias Al-Shabaab Islamist Insurgency
30. The Role
of the Amniyat in Aiding Al-Shabaabs Leadership Motivations (Somalia)
31.
Boko Haram
32. Ansar al-Dine: "Defenders of the Faith" and State Fragility in
Mali
33. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
34. National Movement for the
Liberation of Azawad (MNLA)
35. The Lords Resistance Army (LRA) Insurgency
in Uganda. The Americas.
36. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Peoples Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia Ejército del
Pueblo, FARCEP)
37. Understanding Sendero Luminosos Peruvian Terrorism
38.
The Zapatista Army of National Liberations (EZLN) Revolutionary Struggle
39.
A History of Colombias National Liberation Army (ELN)
40. Camarena as
Context: Mexico, Drug Cartels, and Structures of Insecurity. Europe.
41.
Terrorists as Defenders: The Irish Republican Army
42. The Fighting Peoples
Revolutionary Powers
43. Chechen Terrorism: From Modest Nationalist Claims to
the Caucasus Emirate
44. Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA). Near and Middle East.
45. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK): Origins, History and Strategic
Transformation
46. The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (SMB)
47. Hezbollah
48.
Hezbollah in Turkey: lim
49. Harakat Al-Mukavvama Al-Islamiyah Hamas Filiz
Katman
50. ISIS: The Dramatic Rise and Decline of an Al-Qaeda Offshoot
51.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra
52. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula (AQAP)
53. Ansar Allah (Houthi Rebels)
54. Military Dimension of
Palestinian Religious Nationalism: Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
55. Jaish
al-Mahdi (The Mahdi Army). Central Asia.
56. Al-Qaeda Central in Afghanistan
and Pakistan: Past, Present and Future
57. Al-Qaeda in the Indian
Subcontinent (AQIS) in Pakistan
58. Terrorism, Insurgency, and Peace: The
Afghan Taliban and Composite Factions
59. The Haqqani Network
60. Islamic
Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
61. Islamic State-Khorasan Group (ISK):
Dominating Jihad in Afghanistan and Pakistan (2015-2022)
62. The Balochistan
Insurgency. South Asia.
63. Hizbul-Mujahideen (Kashmir)
64. Indian
Mujahedeen: Homegrown Jihadist of India
65. The Indian Maoists: Naxalbari,
Lalgarh, Dantewada, and Beyond
66. The Wave of Global Maoism and the Maoists
of Nepal
67. Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
68. Jaish-e-Mohammad (The "Army of
Mohammed")
69. Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
70. Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
71. Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh: Core and Offshoots
72. United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). Southeast Asia and the
Indo-Pacific.
73. Tibetan Resistance and Insurgency
74. Between Criminality
and Terrorist Violence: The Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines
75. The
Evolution of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front: From Armed Conflict Actor to
Peace Agreement Signatory with the Philippines
76. Leaving a Wake of Death
and Destruction: The Communist Party of the Philippines-New Peoples Army,
and the National Democratic Front
77. Ethnic Divide and Armed Insurgent
Groups in Myanmar
78. Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army: Spearheading Myanmars
Islamic Insurgency
79. Islamic Insurgency in Southern Thailand: The Mara
Patani and Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN)
80. Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia
81. From Rebels to Terrorists: The Future of the Maoist Insurgency in the
Philippines
Scott N. Romaniuk is a research fellow at the Corvinus Centre for Contemporary Asia Studies (CAS) within the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS) at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, and a senior research affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS).
Animesh Roul is the executive director of the New Delhi-based policy research group Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict and a contributing analyst for The Jamestown Foundation.
Amparo Pamela Fabe is a visiting fellow at the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales and a 2023 fellow of the Irregular Warfare Initiative with the Modern War Institute of the United States Military Academy.
Jįnos Beseny is a professor at Óbuda University, Donįt Bįnki Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering, and head of the Africa Research Institute. He served as a professional soldier for 31 years and participated in several peace operations in Africa and Afghanistan.
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