Contents: Introduction / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin -- Terrorism as a strategy of insurgency / Ariel Merari -- Zealots and assassins / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin -- Manifestations of terror through the ages / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin -- The invention of modern terror / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin -- Anarchist terrorists of the nineteenth century / Olivier Hubac-Occhipinti -- Russian terrorism, 1878-1908 / Yves Ternon -- The "golden age" of terrorism / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin -- Lenin, Stalin, and state terrorism / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin -- Terrorism in time of war : from war II to the wars of national liberation / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin -- From 1968 to radical Islam / Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin -- The roots of Islamic radicalism / Philippe Migaux -- Al qaeda / Philippe Migaux -- The future of the Islamist movement / Philippe Migaux -- Suicide operations : between war and terrorism / François Géré -- The United States confronting terrorism / Arnaud Blin -- Terrorism in south Asia / Rohan Gunaratna.