Handbook of Global Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: Tactics, Strategies, and Organization

The Handbook of Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: A Global Survey of Threats, Tactics, and Characteristics examines the most current and dangerous terrorist and insurgent groups around the world. The purpose is to create a descriptive mosaic of what is a pointedly global security challenge.

The volume brings together conceptual approaches to terrorism, insurgency, and cyberterrorism with substantive and empirical analyses of individual groups, organizations, and networks. By doing so, not only does the coverage highlight the past, present, and future orientations of the most prominent groups, but it also examines and illustrates their key characteristics and how they operate, including significant leaders and ideologues. The chapters provide a thorough and comprehensive overview of the current geography of terrorist and insurgency groups active in the world today.

This comprehensive volume brings the collective expertise and knowledge of more than 50 academics, intelligence and security officials, and professionals together, all of whom are considered subject experts in their respective areas of research and practice. Specialists in these fields conducted both desk and field research for this volume, which includes analyses of secondary literature and primary data, such as first-person interviews concerning the operational regions, tactics, and ideological motivations of the various groups.

About the Editors:

Scott N. Romaniukis a research fellow at the Corvinus Centre for Contemporary Asia Studies (CAS) within the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS) at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, and a senior research affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS).

Animesh Roul is the executive director of the New Delhi-based policy research group Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict and a contributing analyst for The Jamestown Foundation.

Amparo Pamela Fabe is a visiting fellow at the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales and a 2023 fellow of the Irregular Warfare Initiative with the Modern War Institute of the United States Military Academy.

János Besenyő is a professor at Óbuda University, Donát Bánki Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering, and head of the Africa Research Institute. He served as a professional soldier for 31 years and participated in several peace operations in Africa and Afghanistan.

Scott N. Romaniuk is a Newton International Fellow of The British Academy at the University of South Wales’ Faculty of Life Sciences and Education and a Visiting Fellow at the International Centre for Policing and Security.

Animesh Roul is the executive director of the New Delhi-based policy research group Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict.

Amparo Pamela Fabe is Professor of Financial Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime at the Philippine Public Safety College and the National Police College.

János Besenyő is professor at the Óbuda University, Donát Bánki Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering (Hungary) and head of the Africa Research Institute.