The Global Threat of Terror : Ideological, Material and Political Linkages/edited by K.P.S. Gill and Ajai Sahni. New Delhi, Bulwark Books, 2002, v, 276 p., $44. ISBN 81-87553-11-1.

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction/K.P.S. Gill. 2. The global fight against terrorism : where to begin and how to end/George Fernandes. 3. Responding to terrorism/Arun Shourie. 4. Global terror: the challenge of ideologies/L.M. Singhvi. 5. The Taliban: Pakistan’s geopolitical instrument, America’s problem/Amin Saikal. 6. The brotherhood of global Jihad/Reuven Paz. 7. Messianism and political action : some contextual characteristics/William Maley. 8. Secessionist war and terrorism in Sri Lanka: transnational impulses/G.H. Peiris. 9. The Abu Sayyaf Group : a growing menace to civil society/Alfredo Filler. 10. Terrorism and politics: relations of time and place/Mahmoud Mourad. 11. Problem of terrorism in the Post-Soviet era/Yevgeniy Kozhokin. 12. South Asia: extremist Islamist terror and subversion/Ajai Sahni. 13. Asia Pacific : Organised crime and international terrorist networks/Rohan Gunaratna.

"The Global Threat of Terror: Ideological, Material and Political Linkages focuses on the gravest of contemporary threats, not only to individual nations and the civilized world, but to the long-term survival of the human race itself. Rejecting the moral ambivalence of the past that has allowed terrorism to grow under the active sponsorship or the benign indifference of a majority of the world’s nations, this volume explores the complex web of terror that has established itself across the globe. Arguing that if democracies are to survive, they must learn to protect and arm themselves against this greatest of modern scourges, it brings specialists from a wide range of disciplines and countries to focus on the institutional structures, processes and tools that will be necessary for the defence of freedom against the catastrophic threat of terror."

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