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Terrorism

September 11, 2001, was just a single point in an ongoing trend. Terrorism takes many different forms: religious fundamentalism, political extremism from the right or the left, bombings, shootings, stabbings, or cyber attacks on critical infrastructure.These summaries will tell you all about it.

Summaries

10 Book

The Only Plane in the Sky
An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff
Avid Reader Press, 2019
9 Book

A Field Guide to White Supremacy
Kathleen Belew and Ramon Gutierrez
UC Press, 2021
8 Book

From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 1995
6 Book

The End of Faith
Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Sam Harris
W.W. Norton, 2004
8 Book

Culture Warlords
My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
Talia Lavin
Legacy Lit, 2020
8 Podcast

What Trump Understood About the War on Terror That Others Missed
Ezra Klein and Spencer Ackerman
The New York Times, 2021
9 Book

The Age of Jihad
Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
Patrick Cockburn
Verso Books, 2016
8 Book

The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Seymour M. Hersh
Verso Books, 2016
9 Book

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
What Everyone Needs to Know
P.W. Singer and Allan Friedman
Oxford UP, 2014
8 Book

ISIS
A History
Fawaz A. Gerges
Princeton UP, 2017
7 Report

The Financial Cost of Terrorism in Europe
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum, 2018
8 Book

Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict
Ethical, Legal, and Strategic Implications
David Cortright et al.
University of Chicago Press, 2015