Dr Diego Muro is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His main research interests are identity politics, ethnic conflict, and terrorism and counter-terrorism. He has published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnicities, Mediterranean Politics, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, Nations and Nationalism, South European Society & Politics, Studies in Conflict, and Terrorism and West European Politics. His latest books on terrorism are Ethnicity and Violence (2008), ETA's Terrorist Campaign (2017) and When does terrorism work? (2018).

Dr Tim Wilson is the Director of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at St Andrews. His research interests and media appearances range widely over the past, present and future of terrorism and political violence. He is especially interested in why such horrors take the particular forms that they do. His first book Frontiers of Violence - a grassroots comparison of different patterns of ethnic violence in contested borderlands - was published in 2010. His second book Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Become Modern appeared in September 2020. Both were published by Oxford University Press.

• 1: Tim Wilson and Diego Muro: Introduction


• Part One: The State of Terrorism Studies


• 2: What are terrorism studies? Tim Wilson


• 3: Harmonie Toros: Critical Terrorism Studies


• 4: Anthony Richards: Conceptualisations of Terrorism


• 5: Adrian Guelke: Terrorism in Context


• 6: Stefan Malthaner, Donatella della Porta, and Lorenzo Bosi: The Social Science of Political Violence


• 7: Gary LaFree: Open Sources Databases


• Part Two: Issues and Debates in Terrorism Studies


• 8: Bernhard Blumenau and Tim Wilson: The History of Terrorism


• 9: What are the Root Causes of terrorism? Nick Brooke


• 10: When Do Individuals Radicalise? Rik Coolsaet


• 11: Can Terrorism be Rational? Max Abrahms


• 12: Alex Braithwaite and Ian Orringer: Target Selection


• 13: Leena Malkki: Longevity of Terrorist Groups


• 14: Can States be Terrorists? Kieran McConaghy


• 15: Caron Gentry: Gendered and Racialised Terrorism


• 16: Peter Lehr: Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Technology


• 17: Peter Neumann: Old and New Terrorism


• 18: Donald Holbrook: Social Media and Terrorism


• 19: Is Terrorism Effective? Diego Muro


• Part Three: Countering Terrorism


• 20: Martin Innes and Helen Innes: Counterterrorism Agencies and Their Work


• 21: Sondre Lindahl and Richard Jackson: Responding to Terrorism Non-violently


• 22: Frank Foley: Counterterrorism and Human Rights


• 23: Rashmi Singh: Foreign Policy and Countering Terrorism


• 24: Christian Kaunert and Ori Wertman: International Organisations and Counterterrorism


• 25: Jakana Thomas: Terrorism by Insurgents and Rebels


• 26: Daniel Koehler: Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism


• 27: Sarah Marsden: Disengagement and De-Radicalisation Programmes


• 28: Orla Lynch and Carmel Joyce: Victims of Terrorism and Political Violence


• 29: Audrey Kurth Cronin: The End of Terrorist Campaigns