图书目录：List of Abbreviations

Preface

Part One: Introduction

Part Two: The 1970s: Appeasing Terrorism

Chapter 1   1970: The West's First Major Test

Chapter 2   The 1970s: The West's Collective Response to

                     Terrorism Following Dawson's Field

Chapter 3   Rewarding the Palestinians

Chapter 4   Appeasing Two European Insurgencies

                     Introduction

                     Northern Ireland

                     The ETA insurgency

Chapter 5   Equivocal West European Responses to 1968-Inspired Terrorism

                     Introduction

                     West Germany and the Rote Armee Fraktion

                     Italy and the Red Brigades

                     The Netherlands and the South Moluccans

Chapter 6   Appeasing Iran as a Sponsor of Terrorism: The Tehran Embassy Occupation

Part Three: The 1980s: Resisting, Appeasing and Sponsoring Terrorism

Chapter 7   The 1980s: The West's Collective Response to Terrorism

Chapter 8   The 1980s: Resisting Terrorism

                     Naming and shaming the US's terrorist enemies

                     The US assault on Libya

                     US backing for counterterrorist measures in Central America

 Chapter 9   The 1980s: Appeasing Terrorism

                    The Middle East: the West on the run

                    Southern Africa: U-turns in Washington and London

                    Northern Ireland: Thatcher the irresolute

                    Salman Rushdie

 Chapter 10   The 1980s: Encouraging and Sponsoring Terrorism

                    Afghanistan

                    Nicaragua and the Iran/Contra affair

 Part Four: The 1990s: A Schizophrenic Decade

 Chapter 11  The 1990s: Business-as-Usual: Resisting,Appeasing and Sponsoring Terrorism

                    Introduction

                   The West's recognition of Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia

                   Afghanistan and Pakistan

                   Somalia

                   Northern Ireland

                   Kosovo

 Chapter 12  The 1990s: Business-not-as-Usual: In Awe of Terrorism

                   Introduction

                   The New York City conspirators

                   The targeting of airliners by the 'New Terrorists'

                   Chemical and biological terrorism in Japan

                   Oklahoma City

                   Islam-related assaults on US personnel overseas

Part Five: Conclusion

Chapter 13  9/11 as a Catalyst for Consistency?

                   The West's initial response to 9/11

                   The longer-term Western response to 9/11

                   Towards a Neo-Metternichian international

                    system?

Bibliography

Index