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Informationen zum Autor Bruce Hoffman is a professor at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service and the director of its Center for Security Studies and the Security Studies Program as well as a senior fellow at the U.S. Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center. He was scholar-in-residence for counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency from 2004 to 2006 and is the author of the highly praised Inside Terrorism. Fernando Reinares is a professor of political science and security studies at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos as well as a senior analyst on global terrorism at Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid! Spain. Between 2004 and 2006! he served as senior advisor on counterterrorism policy to Spain's Ministry of Interior. He is the author of two Spanish best-sellers on ETA and the Madrid train bombings respectively. Klappentext Examining major terrorist acts and campaigns undertaken in the decade following September 11! 2001! internationally recognized scholars study the involvement of global terrorist leaders and organizations in these incidents and the planning! organization! execution! recruitment! and training that went into them. Their work captures the changing character of al-Qaeda and its affiliates since the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the sophisticated elements that! despite the West's best counterterrorism efforts! continue to exert substantial direction over jihadist terrorist operations Zusammenfassung 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.
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"The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat offers the definitive account of al-Qaeda's plots in the post-9/11 era. Bruce Hoffman, Fernando Reinares, and the volume's other noted experts provide detailed analyses of al-Qaeda-linked plots around the world, making a compelling case that the al-Qaeda core remains an active terrorism threat to governments everywhere." - Daniel Byman, Georgetown University, and senior fellow, Brookings Institution
