Includes bibliographical, references and index.

Conceptualizing counterterrorism / Olivier Lewis -- The socially constructed insurgency: using social movement theory as a framework for analyzing insurgencies / Shane Drennan -- The crime terror insurgency nexus : implications for global security / Daniela Irrera -- Ideological motivations of Arab foreign fighters as insurgents and terrorists : from 1980s Afghanistan to the Syrian insurgency / Roger P. Warren -- Al-Qaeda : through the lens of global insurgency / Michael F. Morris -- The threat of terrorism to critical infrastructure : TEN-R and the global Salafi jihad / Colin Maclachlan -- The power to hurt indirectly : deterrence of violent nonstate organizations by threats of domestic political costs / Oren Magen -- Latent insurgency : is the threat of militant Islamist groups in Indonesia diminishing? / Paul J. Carnegie -- Mali's rebels : making sense of the national movement for the Liberation of Azawad insurgency / Stewart Tristan Webb -- Crossroads : tracing the historical roots of modern insurgency in the Caucasus / Chris Murray -- Lashkar-e-taiba : regional insurgent group or emerging international threat? / Stewart Tristan Webb -- The Haqqani network threat : keeping insurgency in the family / Scott Nicholas Romaniuk and Stewart Tristan Webb -- Manchuria : the cockpit of insurgent empire : a historical perspective from the Khitan Liao to the People's Republic of China / Christopher Mott -- From David to Goliath : Chinese pacification and counterinsurgency operations in modern wars / Francis Grice -- The "father-to-son" war: Burma's Karen nationalist insurgency / Scott Nicholas Romaniuk -- An assessment of the United Nations counterterrorism initiatives : 2001-2015 / Emeka Thaddues Njoku -- Insurgencies, civil wars, and international support: reassessing evidence of moral hazard from the Balkans / Marinko Bobic.