Globalisation and the New Terror : The Asia Pacific Dimension

by Jones, David Martin

• ISBN13: 9781845427771
• ISBN10: 1845427777
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-30
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
List of Acronyms	xii
Acknowledgements	xv
1. Contemporary Political Violence – New Terror in the Global Village	1	(28)
David Martin Jones and Mike Smith
PART I THEORISING NEW TERROR
2. Uncertain Diagnosis: Megalomaniacal Hyper-Terrorism and an Unending War for the Future?	29	(11)
Paul Schulte
3. Anti-Globalisation.com: The Paradox and the Threat of Contemporary Violent Protest	40	(11)
Grant Wardlaw
4. The al-Qaeda Threat and the International Response	51	(19)
Rohan Gunaratna
5. Islamic Extremism and Wahhabism	70	(9)
Clive Williams
PART II TERROR TACTICS AND ASYMMETRIC STRATEGIES –NEW AND OLD
6. Trends in the Development of Terrorist Bombing	79	(9)
Angus Muir
7. The Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Threat – Exaggeration or Apocalypse Soon?	88	(31)
Gavin Cameron
8. The Asymmetric Character of the Evolving Chemical, Biological and Nuclear (CBN) Threat	119	(8)
François Haut
9. Information Age Terrorism and Warfare	127	(32)
Kevin A. O'Brien
10. The Networking of Terror in the Information Age	159	(26)
Michele Zanini
PART III IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ASIA PACIFIC
11. Southeast Asia after September 11	185	(22)
James Cotton
12. The Persistence of Armed Muslim Rebellion in Southeast Asia: Implications after September 11	207	(31)
Andrew Tan
13. Organised Crime and Terrorism in the Asia Pacific Region: The Reality and the Response	238	(17)
John MacFarlane
14. The Politics of the Southeast Asian Heroin Trade	255	(14)
Peter Chalk
PART IV TOWARDS A CONCLUSION
15. Post-September 11 Legislative Responses to Terrorism	269	(14)
Mark Weeding
16. Australia after September 11: The Intelligence Challenge	283	(5)
Dennis Richardson
17. Terrorism Today – Terrorism and International Regimes	288	(10)
Richard Butler
Bibliography	298	(11)
Index	309