Book Series: Insurgency and Terrorism Series

Series Editor
Rohan Gunaratna
International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR)
S Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Nanyang Technological University
Email: isrkgunaratna@ntu.edu.sg

Advisory Board Members
Brigadier General (Retired) Russell D. Howard (Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program and Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA)
Dr Richard H. Shultz, Jr. (Fletcher School, Tufts University)
Dr Frank Shanty (The Cobra Institute, USA)
Prof. Peter Anderson
Dr Gerard Chaliand (Ecole Superieure de Guerre, Paris)
Dr Cindy R. Jebb (United States Military Academy, USA)
Aviv Oreg, CeifiT (Israel)
Prof Edwin Bakker (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Sir Richard Billing Dearlove (formerly Chief of British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), UK)
Dr David Kilcullen (Caerus Associates LLC, USA, and Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Terrorism and insurgency present a tier-one threat to the national security of governments and societies. New threats are always emerging, either due to strategic shifts in policies that give rise to new opportunities for insurgents to rear their heads, or due to changes in the political climates of societies. For example, the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces from Iraq and Afghanistan and the strategic defeat of the West in the Middle Eastern and Asian campaigns have emboldened threat groups worldwide. The U.S. withdrawal will recreate the conditions in Afghanistan for the return of al Qaeda, the Taliban and their associated groups. Will this threat spread to India and China, the emerging superpowers?

While the Arab Spring seems to have marginalized al-Qaeda and their associated groups, their infiltrators and ideologies are challenging the emergence of a stable Middle East. From this turmoil, a new epicentre of terrorism and insurgency is emerging in Africa. Ideological extremism and its vicious by-products of terrorism and insurgency will threaten the world in the foreseeable future. These recent regional and functional developments have renewed our interest in the study of terrorism and insurgency.

This series on Insurgency and Terrorism delineates extant and emerging threats and identifies governmental and societal responses. It focuses on threats and challenges confronting our globalizing world, informing policy and academic communities.

The Series Editor invites book proposals on regional and functional specializations of insurgency and terrorism. Book proposals can be sent to Prof. Rohan Gunaratna at isrkgunaratna@ntu.edu.sg.