Introduction / Tore Bjørgo
Exploring roots of terrorism / Dipak K. Gupta
Impoverished terrorists : stereotype or reality? / Jitka Maleková
The social and psychological characteristics of terrorism and terrorists / John Horgan
When hatred is bred in the bone : the socio-cultural underpinnings of terrorist psychology / Jerrold M. Post
Social, organizational, and psychological factors in suicide terrorism / Ariel Merari
Palestinian resistance and "suicide bombing" : causes and consequences / Hisham H. Ahmed
Roots of terrorism in the Middle East : international pressures and international constraints / Abdullah Sahar Mohammad
Nationalist separatism and terrorism in comparative perspective / Fernando Reinares
Root causes of terrorism : a case study of the Tamil insurgency and the LTTE / D.R. Kaarthikeyan
Right-wing terrorism / Wilhelm Heitmeyer
Social-revolutionary terrorism in Latin-America and Europe / Peter Waldmann
The use of terrorism by organized crime : an Italian case study / Alison Jamieson
Patterns of state failure : the case of Lebanon / Farid el Khazen
State sponsorship : a root cause of terrorism? / Louise Richardson
Expected utility and state terrorism / Michael Stohl
A conceptual framework for resolving terrorism's causes / Joshua Sinai
Prevention of terrorism : towards a multi-pronged approach / Alex P. Schmid
Fire of Iolaus : the role of state counter-measures in causing terrorism and what needs to be done / Andrew Silke
Conclusions / Tore Bjørgo.