Global Alert: The Rationality of Modern Islamist Terrorism and the Challenge to the Liberal Democratic World
ISBN: 9780231538916
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Terrorism -- Islamic countries; Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Terrorism -- Prevention;

Describes the motivations that lead to modern Islamist terrorism and the different stages in the execution of a terrorist attack.

Boaz Ganor is the founder and executive director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), the Ronald Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism, and the dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya. He has served as an advisor and/or a consultant to the Israeli Counter-Terrorism Bureau, the Israeli National Security Council, and the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

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