The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's Death

Featuring essays by internationally recognized scholars, The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat examines major terrorist acts and campaigns undertaken in the decade following September 11, 2001. These experts track the involvement of global terrorist leaders and organizations in these incidents and the planning, organization, execution, recruitment, and training that went into them. The essays capture the changing character of al-Qaeda and its affiliates since the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq that in part led to the emergence of the Islamic State and the sophisticated elements that, despite the West's best counterterrorism efforts, continue to exert substantial direction over jihadi terrorist operations.

World-renowned experts on terrorism track the evolution of global jihad from the attack on the World Trade Center to the death of Osama bin Laden.