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The American Academy's Recent Studies on International Security and Terrorism

The American Academy staff is deeply saddened by the tragic events of September 11. Through its Committee on International Security Studies and Midwest Consortium for International Security Studies, the Academy has maintained a longstanding commitment to understanding and promoting global security. In an effort to aid those researching responses to and prevention of such horrendous acts of terrorism, we have consolidated below a list of the Academy's recent studies relavent to the topic of terrorism, international security, and fundamentalism.

Security Studies

"Terrorism and Business"
DePaul Business Law Journal, vol.12, no.1-2, Fall/Spring 1999/2000

Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger
Edited by Jutta Weldes, Mark Laffey, Hugh Gusterson, and Raymond Duvall
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999)

Violent Conflict in the 21st Century: Causes, Instruments, and Mitigation
Edited by Charles Hermann, Harold K. Jacobson, and Anne Moffat
(Chicago: AAAS, 1999)

Lethal Commerce: The Global Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons
Edited by Jeffrey Boutwell, Michael T. Klare, and Laura W. Reed
(Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995)

Recent Articles

"The Virulence of Violence: Seeds of Destruction"
By the Washington Outlook staff
Washington Post, February 4, 2001

"A Scourge of Arms"
By Jeffrey Boutwell and Michael T. Klare
Scientific American, June 2000

Fundamentalism

Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East
Edited by R. Scott Appleby
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)

Fundamentalism Comprehended (vol. 5 of series)
Edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, University of Chicago Press, 1995

Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements (vol. 4 of series) Edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, University of Chicago Press, 1994

Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance (vol. 3 of series) Edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993)

Fundamentalism and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education (vol. 2 of series), Edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, University of Chicago Press, 1993

The Glory and the Power: The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World
Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1992)

Fundamentalisms Observed (vol. 1 of series)
Edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991)

For more information, please call Phyllis Bendell at (617) 576-5047 or email publications@amacad.org.

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