Contributors:
 
Yonah Alexander
Don Wallace, Jr.
Reuven Azar
Mohammed Alhussaini Alsharif
David Pollock
Nicholas Rostow




Copyright: www.terrorismelectronicjournal.org
(Publication Date at RIEAS web site: 03/08/2014)


Introduction

Professor Yonah Alexander
Director, Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies

As this report goes to press, the world once again has been facing an alarming upsurge of threats to peace in the form of terrorism, insurgencies, and outbreaks of full-scale wars. Some of the expanding manifestations of violence have been aggravated by ideological extremism, nationalistic fanaticism, ethnic hatred, racial prejudices, religious animosities and justified in the name of “rights,” “justice” and even “peace.” The current security challenges include the renewed Palestinian-Israeli hostilities in Gaza, the apparent “Balkanization” of Syria and Iraq, and Iran’s continued nuclear ambitions...  Read more

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