This paper traces the history of modern terrorism from the end of the Second World War to the beginning of the twenty …-first century. It divides that history into three stylized waves: terrorism in the service of national liberation and ethnic … separatism, left-wing terrorism, and Islamist terrorism. Adopting a constitutional political economy perspective, the paper …

development of fundamentalist groups. In this paper we develop a theory of fundamentalism and terrorism under which leaders …Fundamentalist organizations and the terrorists they spawn do not arise of a vacuum. Combating terrorism requires …

phenomena, such as the collapse of order based on Western civilization, emergence of sub-regional powers, nonstate terrorism …