This edited book addresses the appropriateness of US and other counter-terrorist (CT) strategies in Europe and Eurasia, the Middle East, the Asia Pacific region and in Latin America, with a view to improving their effectiveness. The book has three main objectives:to re-examine terrorists' strategic goals and sources of legitimacy and the nature of their ideological support to analyze current US and regional CT strategies and assess their success in de-legitimizing terrorists and undermining their support to provide a strategic synthesis and policy recommendations in light of the research findings. This book will be of interest to students of political violence and terrorism, security studies and international relations in general.

I: Introduction; 1: Approaches to Countering Terrorism and Cist; 2: Ideology in Terrorism and Counter Terrorism; II: The Greater Middle East; 3: Saudi Arabia's Conundrum and the Al Qaeda Insurgency; 4: Countering Terrorism; 5: Countering Arab Television?; 6: Islamic Radicalism in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan; 7: Countering Ideological Support; III: Southeast Asia; 8: Combating Al Jama'Ah Al Islamiyyah in Southeast Asia; 9: It's the Story, Stupid; 10: Counter-Ideological Work; IV: Latin and South America; 11: Terrorism in the Southern Cone; 12: Confronting Terrorism in Latin America; 13: Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism in the Circum-Caribbean; V: Europe and Africa; 14: Countering Islamist Radicals in Eastern Europe; 15: Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism; VI: Conclusions and Policy Recommendations; 16: Synthesizing Worldwide Experiences in Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism (Cist)