Contents Foreword by Bruce Hoffman vii Preface xi Acknowledgments xix 1. Introduction 1 James J. F. Forest and Frank Honkus, III PART I: TERRORISM AND STRATEGIC INFLUENCE 2. Jihad.com 2.0: The New Social Media and the Changing Dynamics of Mass Persuasion 27 Aidan Kirby Winn and Vera L. Zakem 3. When Fatwas Clash Online: Terrorist Debates on the Internet 49 Gabriel Weimann 4. New Media’s Infl uence on the Assessment of Publicly Communicated Terrorist Threats 75 M. Karen Walker 5. The Terrorist Spectacular and the Ladder of Terrorist Success 93 Cori E. Dauber PART II: IMPLICATIONS FOR COMBATING TERRORISM 6. The Strategic Dimensions of Terrorism: Concepts, Countermeasures, and Conditions in the Search for Security 123 Frank L. Jones
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