ISBN : 9781800616189
Author : Dennis A Pluchinsky
Publisher : World Scientific
Year : 2025
Language : English
Type : Book
Description : A major international security concern that surfaced in the post-World War II period was the emergence and evolution of international terrorism. The dominant theme in the evolution of this threat has been anti-American terrorism. No other country has had its overseas interests subjected to the same level, lethality, diversity, and geographic scope of international terrorist activity as the United States. This five-volume work chronicles the development of this threat through 12 U.S. presidential administrations over a 70-year period. It assesses the terrorist threat in the U.S. and overseas and how the government responded. The expansion of the field of terrorism in academia, think tanks, institutes, and the private sector over this period is also addressed. Volumes I and II covered the Eisenhower through to the George H.W. Bush administrations. This volume documents the terrorist