The Fletcher School
Tufts University
The Jebsen Center for Counter Terrorism Studies

Publications

Moghadam, Assaf

Books

The Roots of Terrorism (Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2006) [forthcoming in June 2006]
http://www.chelseahouse.com/ResDetail.aspx?BrowseVar=&ISBN=0791083071&ParentSource=Social+Studies

Articles and Book Chapters

Mayhem, Myths, and Martyrdom: The Shi'a Conception of Jihad, Terrorism and Political Violence. 19:125-143, 2007.

Suicide Terrorism, Occupation, and the Globalization of Martyrdom: A Critique of ‘Dying to Win,’” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 29.6 (August 2006)Read article here.

“The Roots of Suicide Terrorism: A Multi-Causal Approach,” in Ami Pedahzur, ed. Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism (London: Routledge, 2006) [forthcoming]

“Defining Suicide Terrorism,” in Ami Pedahzur, ed. Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism (London: Routledge, 2006) [forthcoming]

“The Shii Perception of Jihad,” Al-Nakhlah (Winter 2004), available online at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/al_nakhlah/archives/fall2003/moghadam.pdf

“Radical Islamist Groups in Germany: A Lesson in Prosecuting Terror in Court,” PolicyWatch # 834, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 19 February 2004. (Co-authored with Matthew Levitt).

“A Global Resurgence of Religion?” Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Working Paper No. 03-03, September 2003. Available online at http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/rsrchpapsum.asp?ID=723

“Palestinian Suicide Terrorism in the Second Intifada: Motivations and Organizational Aspects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 26.2 (February/March 2003)

“Suicide Bombings in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Conceptual Framework,” Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PRISM), May 2002. Available online at http://www.e-prism.org/

Op-Eds

“Suicide Bombers Go Global,” International Herald Tribune, 21 November 2005

“The New Martyrs Go Global,” Boston Globe, 18 November 2005

Book Reviews

Suicide in Palestine: Narratives of Despair, by Nadia Taysir Dabbagh (Northampton, MA: Interlink, 2005), in Transcultural Psychiatry [forthcoming]

Making Sense of Suicide Missions, edited by Diego Gambetta (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), in Political Science Quarterly 121.1 (Spring 2006)

Suicide Bombers: Allah’s New Martyrs by Farhad Khosrokhavar, transl. David Macey (London: Pluto Press, 2005), in Terrorism and Political Violence 18.1 (Spring 2006)

Fatal Future by Richard Pearlstein, in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 28.2 (March/April 2005)