Now an established feature of world politics and conflict, terrorism is used to seek political and military results judged difficult or impossible to achieve in the usual political forums or on the battlefield against an army.
In Terrorism: Power, Fear and Politics, Professor Christopher Harmon dwells on current source materials, questions and challenges – from the newly-relevant Charter of Hamas to emergent terrorism and insurgency among the Baluch people of Pakistan to the question of why the Basque ETA has just suspended all militant actions, plus wider historical episodes of transnational terrorism.