Anthony Lang (St. Andrews): The Politics of Punishing Terrorists. Susan Dente Ross (WSU): Limning Terror: Seams in the Discourse of "Terrorism". John Tures (LaGrange): Do Terrorists “Win” Elections? Just as the US sent the USSR into oblivion, Al-Qaeda has accelerated the economic decline of the US to the benefit of its nearest global rival, China. Ted Galen Carpenter on conservative Leninists and the War on Terror. Small airports, big worries: Sammy Elrom on aviation’s security weakest link. New research suggests that to be effective, counterterrorism efforts should support human rights, rather than violate them. Hardly Existential: John Mueller and Mark Stewart on thinking rationally about terrorism. An interview with Stuart Elden, author of Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty. Social scientists do counterinsurgency: A review essay by Nicholas Lemann on terrorism. Scott Atran on pathways to and from violent extremism and the case for science-based field research. Michael Kazin reviews In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History by Michael Fellman. An interview with Mark Perry, author of Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage with its Enemies. Saif Shahin on how inclusion cools Islamist hotheads. An interview with Mosab Hassan Yousef, author of Son of Hamas. Why some young Western Muslims find al-Qaeda's narrative so appealing. Homegrown Jihad: Why are young Somali men leaving their homes in Minnesota to die in the name of Allah? Jihad Wannabes: Asra Nomani on the rise of the Walter Mitty radical. The Children of George Metesky: Not every terrorist is a product of the left or the right. The mind of a terrorist: A team of researchers examine the motivation of terrorists and the effectiveness of de-radicalization efforts.
