English - Does terrorism work?: A history

Even an instinctively solitary scholar must acknowledge that lone-wolfing will not suffice when pursuing large-scale research. As with my previous books, the researching and writing of this one have been made possible and enjoyable by the kindness of many people. Their scholarship, advice, friendship, support, and insights have helped me hugely, and it is a pleasure to be able to thank the following individuals here: John Anderson, Ali Ansari, Javier Argomaniz, Abdul Haqq Baker, Eli Berman, Paul Bew, Roddy Brett, Peter Clark, Matthew Cotton, Martha Crenshaw, Audrey Kurth Cronin, Mark Currie, Gillian Duncan, Dennis Dworkin, Joseph Easson, David Eastwood, Joseph Felter, Page Fortna, Chloe Foster, Roy Foster, Conor Gearty, Andreas Gofas, Andrew Gordon, Adrian Guelke, Dipak Gupta, Mohammed Hafez, Chris Hawkesworth, Bruce Hoffman, Donald Holbrook, Bruce Hunter, Peter Jackson, Tom Johnson, Stathis Kalyvas, Jeffrey Kaplan, Michael Kenny, Dimitris Keridis, Desmond King, David Laitin, David Lake, Bob Lambert, Peter Lehr, Sarah Marsden, Julie Middleton, Diego Muro, Paul Newton, Luciana OFlaherty, David Omand, Jonathan Phillips, Gilbert Ramsay, David Rapoport, Maria Rasmussen, Nick Rengger, Louise Richardson, Adam Roberts, Alex Schmid, Jacob Shapiro, Rashmi Singh, Joseph Skelly, Martin Stokes, Charles Townshend, David Veness, Paul Wilkinson, Caroline Winterer, and Tim Wilson. Colleagues and students at the University of St Andrews have made a great contribution to the ongoing scholarly debate on terrorism and I myself have certainly learned much from them. It has been a privilege to work at the Universitys Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), as it has been to gain insights from the large number of people whom I have interviewed regarding political violence over many years.

Im also very grateful to those who invited me to speak on terrorism (and to those who offered responses and questions when I did so) at the following institutions during the course of working on this book: Stanford University; the University of Oxford; the London School of Economics; the University of Cambridge; the University of California, San Diego; Georgetown University; Copenhagen University; Boston College; the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey; Chatham House, London; the National University of Ireland at Maynooth; the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin; San Diego State University; the University of Glasgow; the Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm; the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague; the University of Birmingham; the University of Aberystwyth; Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi; the Institut Barcelona dEstudis Internacionals (IBEI) in Barcelona (and the Ways Out project there); the University of Nevada, Reno; the University of Exeter; and the Olympia Summer Academy. A period based at the Stanford Humanities Center as a Visiting Scholar facilitated valuable conversations with many people within that intellectually iridescent setting.

As ever, the dedication of the book expresses my most precious debt of all.