Chapter One. Decapitation: Catching or Killing the Leader

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Abbreviations xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter One. Decapitation: Catching or Killing the Leader 14
7. Chapter Two. Negotiations: Transition toward a Legitimate Political Process 35
8. Chapter Three. Success: Achieving the Objective 73
9. Chapter Four. Failure: Imploding, Provoking a Backlash, or Becoming Marginalized 94
10. Chapter Five. Repression: Crushing Terrorism with Force 115
11. Chapter Six. Reorientation: Transitioning to Another Modus Operandi 146
12. Chapter Seven. How Al-Qaeda Ends: The Relevance and Irrelevance of History 167
13. Conclusion 197
14. Appendix: Statistical Analysis of Terrorist Campaigns 207
15. Notes 223
16. Selected Bibliography 283
17. Index 297