This new Routledge Major Work collection of the best scholarly research and serious writing on Al Qaeda will be welcomed by researchers, students, and counter-terrorism specialists as the go-to resource. The gathered materials are mainly drawn from scholarly journals of the first rank and chapters from the most authoritative books. Also included are a small number of newspaper and magazine articles which have already made an enduring impact on what is a very new field of research.
Al Qaeda is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.
VOLUME I
PART 1: The Evolving Threat
1 Rethinking Terrorism and Counterterrorism Since 9/11
bruce hoffman
2 What Changed and What Did Not on 9/11
louise richardson
3 Reevaluating Al Qa’ida’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Capabilities
peter bergen
4 Al Qaeda: Killers and Bunglers
michael sheehan
5 The Changing Face of Al Qaeda and the Global War on Terrorism
bruce hoffman
6 The Iraq Effect: The War in Iraq and its Impact on the War on Terrorism
peter bergen and paul cruickshank
7 Europe’s Jihadist Dilemma
peter r. neumann
8 Al Qaeda Strikes Back
bruce riedel
9 The Next Generation of Terror
marc sageman
10 The Myth of Grass-Roots Terrorism: Why Osama bin Laden Still Matters
bruce hoffman
11 Does Osama Still Call the Shots? Debating the Containment of al Qaeda’s Leadership
marc sageman and bruce hoffman
12 Al-Qaeda Central: An Assessment of the Threat Posed by the Terrorist Group on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border
barbara sude
13 Evaluating the Al Qa’ida Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland
philip mudd
14 The Evolving Terrorist Threat in Yemen
christopher boucek
15 Assessing the Jihadist Terrorist Threat to America and American Interests
peter bergen, bruce hoffman and katherine tiedemann
16 The Death of Usama bin Ladin: Threat Implications for the U.S Homeland
philip mudd
PART 2: Safe Havens and Training
17 Jihad after Iraq: Lessons from the Arab Afghans
mohammed m. hafez
18 A Nation Challenged: Al Qaeda’s Grocery Lists and Manuals of Killing
david rohde and c. j. chivers
19 Training on a Battlefield: Iraq as a Training Ground for Global Jihadis
truls hallberg tønnessen
20 How Did Europe’s Global Jihadis Obtain Training for Their Militant Causes?
petter nesser
21 The Militant Pipeline Between the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Region and the West
paul cruickshank
22 Foreign Fighters in Somalia
michael taarnby and lars hallundbaek
23 Could Al-Qaeda Turn African in the Sahel?
jean-pierre filiu
24 Yemen on the Brink?: The Resurgence of al Qaeda in Yemen
barak barfi
VOLUME II
PART 3: Al Qaeda before 9/11
25 Revisiting the Early Al Qaeda: An Updated Account of its Formative Years
peter bergen and paul cruickshank
26 The Evolution of the Jihad
marc sageman
27 Bin Laden Returns to Afghanistan: Getting Settled and Politicking
michael scheuer
28 Bin Laden in Afghanistan: Targeting America and Expanding Al Qaeda
michael scheuer
29 The Bin Laden Trial: What Did We Learn?
peter bergen
30 Terrorism’s Dark Master
peter bergen
31 The Man Behind Bin Laden: How an Egyptian Doctor Became a Master of Terror
lawrence wright
32 Inside Al Qaeda’s Hard Drive: Budget Squabbles, Baby Pictures, Office Rivalries—and the Path to 9/11
alan cullison
33 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed: Family Business
yosri fouda and nick fielding
PART 4: Al Qaeda post 9/11
34 Survivor and Planner, 2001–2010
michael scheuer
35 The New Al-Qaeda Central
craig whitlock
36 Radicalization and Subversion: Al Qaeda and the 7 July 2005 Bombings and the 2006 Airline Bombing Plot
bruce hoffman
37 Retaining Relevance: Assessing Al-Qaeda’s Generational Evolution
jarret brachman
38 Manchester, New York and Oslo: Three Centrally Directed Al-Qa’ida Plots
rafaello pantucci
39 Al-Qa’ida’s Key Operative: A Profile of Mohammed Ilyas Kashmiri
seth nye
40 The Leaderless Jihad’s Leader
bruce hoffman
41 Al Qaeda Without Bin Laden: How Terrorists Cope with Their Leader’s Death
brynjar lia
42 Al Qaeda in its Third Decade: Irreversible Decline or Imminent Victory?
brian michael jenkins
43 Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?
nelly lahoud, stuart caudill, liam collins, gabriel koehler-derrick, don rassler and muhammad al-‘ubaydi
PART 5: Administration and Financing
44 Al Qaeda’s Organizational Structure and its Evolution
rohan gunaratna and aviv oreg
45 Cracks in the Foundation: Leadership Schisms in al-Qa’ida from 1989–2006
vahid brown
46 The Evolution of Command
leah farrall
47 A Financial Profile of Al-Qaeda and its Affiliates
juan miguel del cid gómez
48 Al-Qa’ida’s Finances: Evidence of Organizational Decline?
matthew levitt
49 Is al Qaeda Bankrupt?
nathan vardi
VOLUME III
PART 6: Al Qaeda’s Affiliates
50 Al Qa’ida Central and Local Affiliates
vahid brown
51 Looking for the Pattern: Al Qaeda in Southeast Asia: The Genealogy of a Terror Network
david martin jones, michael l. r. smith and mark weeding
52 Islamist Violence and Regime Stability in Saudi Arabia
thomas hegghammer
53 Suicide Terrorism in Iraq: A Preliminary Assessment of the Quantitative Data and Documentary Evidence
mohammed m. hafez
54 Introduction
joseph felter and brian fishman
55 After the War in Iraq: What Will the Foreign Fighters Do?
peter bergen
56 Al-Qaeda’s Allies: Explaining the Relationship between Al-Qaeda and Various Factions of the Taliban after 2001
anne stenersen
57 A Profile of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
hassan abbas
58 Lashkar-e-Taiba in Perspective: An Evolving Threat
stephen tankel
59 Defining the Punjabi Taliban Network
hassan abbas
60 The Evolving Role of Uzbek-led Fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan
jeremy binnie and joanna wright
61 Ideological Alignment with al Qaeda: Towards the Global Jihad
michael taarnby and lars hallundbaek
62 Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: Algerian Challenge or Global Threat?
jean-pierre filiu
63 AQAP: Origin and Evolution (2006–2011)
author name witheld
PART 7: Homegrown and Al Qaeda-Inspired Networks
64 The Rise of Leaderless Jihad
marc sageman
65 Confronting al-Qaeda: Understanding the Threat in Afghanistan and Beyond
marc sageman
66 The Hofstad Group: The New Face of Terrorist Networks in Europe
lorenzo vidino
67 A Typology of Lone Wolves: Preliminary Analysis of Lone Islamist Terrorists
raffaello pantucci
VOLUME IV
PART 8: Root Causes
68 License to Kill: Usama bin Laden’s Declaration of Jihad
bernard lewis
69 Interpreting the Broader Context and Meaning of Bin-Laden’s Fatwa
magnus ranstorp
70 Somebody Else’s Civil War
michael scott doran
71 What Were the Causes of 9/11?
peter bergen
72 Killing in the Name of Islam: Al-Qaeda’s Justification for September 11
quintan wiktorowicz and john kaltner
73 Suicide Terrorism, Occupation, and the Globalization of Martyrdom: A Critique of Dying to Win
assaf moghadam
74 Analysis: Why Arab Spring Could Be al Qaeda’s Fall
paul cruickshank
PART 9: Radicalization and Recruitment
75 The Jihadist’s Profile
marc sageman
76 Radicalization in the Diaspora
marc sageman
77 Terrorism in the Age of the Internet
marc sageman
78 Terrorist Recruitment and Radicalization in Saudi Arabia
thomas hegghammer
79 Militant Recruitment in Pakistan: Implications for Al Qaeda and Other Organizations
c. christine fair
80 Europe’s Angry Muslims
robert s. leiken
81 Clerical Error: The Dangers of Tolerance
peter bergen and paul cruickshank
82 Would-Be Warriors: Incidents of Jihadist Terrorist Radicalization in the United States Since September 11, 2001
brian michael jenkins
83 Anwar al-‘Awlaqi: Profile of a Jihadi Radicalizer
christopher heffelfinger
84 The Growing Danger from Radical Islamist Groups in the United States
paul cruickshank
85 The Female Jihad: Al Qaeda’s Women
katharina von knop
86 The Danger of Prison Radicalization in the West
james brandon
87 Enlisting Terror: Al-Qaeda’s Recruitment Challenges
paul cruickshank
PART 10: Propaganda
88 Analysis and Evolution of the Global Jihadist Movement Propaganda
manuel r. torres, javier jordán, and nicola horsburgh
89 Terrorists Turn to the Web as Base of Operations
steve coll and susan b. glasser
90 The Web as Weapon
susan b. glasser and steve coll
91 Al-Qaeda’s Media Strategies
marc lynch
92 The Real Online Terrorist Threat
evan f. kohlmann
93 Al-Qa‘ida’s Extensive Use of the Internet
gabriel weiman
94 Al-Qaeda Central and the Internet
daniel kimmage
VOLUME V
PART 11: Ideology and Ideologues
95 The Origins of the Jihad
marc sageman
96 A Genealogy of Radical Islam
quintan wiktorowicz
97 The Philosopher of Islamic Terror
paul berman
98 Anatomy of the Salafi Movement
quintan wiktorowicz
PART 12: Aims and Strategy
99 Strategic Fissures: The Near and Far Enemy Debate
steven brooke
100 Changes in Zawahiri’s Ideology: The Near and Far Enemies
montasser al-zayyat
101 The Terrorist Calculus behind 9-11: A Model for Future Terrorism?
brigitte l. nacos
102 Abu Musab Al Suri: Architect of the New Al Qaeda
paul cruickshank and mohannad hage ali
103 Jihadi Strategists and Doctrinarians
brynjar lia
104 Al-Qa’ida’s Pakistan Strategy
don rassler
105 Al-Qaeda’s Palestinian Problem
barak mendelsohn
PART 13: Backlash and Critique
106 Introduction
gilles kepel
107 The Unraveling: The Jihadist Revolt Against Bin Laden
peter bergen and paul cruickshank
108 The Rebellion Within: An Al Qaeda Mastermind Questions Terrorism
lawrence wright
'Compiled by Paul Cruickshank, a New York-based investigative journalist and one of CNN’s top correspondents on terrorism, this monumental five-volume collection of previously published articles by leading analysts on al Qaeda is, to date, the most comprehensive resource published on the terrorist organization and its worldwide affiliates.' - Joshua Sinai, The Washington Times
'Numerous insights presented by the volume’s contributors help us understand the magnitude of the threats posed by al Qaeda.' - Joshua Sinai, The Washington Times
'In today’s era, when multivolume printed reference sets are disappearing slowly with the rise of e-books and younger generations are accustomed to finding free content via online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia, where the content is uneven at best, there still is no substitute to reading reference sets such as Mr. Cruickshank’s al Qaeda.' - Joshua Sinai, The Washington Times
'With its carefully selected and definitive chapters, readers who crave comprehensiveness and accuracy and are willing to pay for it will not be disappointed.' - Joshua Sinai, The Washington Times
