1. Contemporary terrorism and brutality -- 2. Terrorism perpetrated by individuals -- 3. Terrorist group brutality and the emergence of the Islamic State -- 4. Financing brutality : the 'rotten kid' theorem -- 5. Terrorist financing : portfolios of fundraising and transfer methods -- 6. Attack...

The Global Terrorism Database contains many active and inactive terrorist groups. Whether one considers their size to be measured in terms of grassroots support or number of members (individual terrorists), the defining characteristic of the terrorist groups contained in the GTD is smallness....

The purpose of this paper is to apply economic science to the analysis of the opportunities and choices of single individual ‘lone wolf’ terrorists whose attacks are characterised by ‘sprees’ of violence that last only for a relatively short period of time. Unlike ‘serial’ lone...

From time to time, the press reports the disruption of a terrorist plot by means of government agents infiltrating a terrorist network. Terrorists believe they are dealing with co-conspirators only to find they have been dealing with government agents. The problem facing the terrorists is an...