Terrorism and Transatlantic Relations

Klaus Larres is the Richard M Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as Counselor and Senior Policy Adviser at the German Embassy in Beijing, was the former holder of the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in International Relations at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, NJ. He was the Clifford Hackett Visiting Professor at Yale, a Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University/SAIS in Washington, DC, and a Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. Klaus Larres' books include Churchill's Cold War (Yale UP, 2002), Uncertain Allies: Nixon, Kissinger and the Threat of a United Europe (Yale UP, 2022), Understanding Global Politics: Actors and Themes in International Affairs (co-edited; Routledge, 2020), Dictators and Autocrats: Securing Power Across Global Politics (ed., Routledge, 2022), and many others.

Tobias Hof is a Privatdozent for Modern and Contemporary History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right and was the Visiting Professor at UNC Chapel Hill. His main research interests include the history of terrorism/antiterrorism, fascism, and humanitarianism. He is the author of Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender (UTP, 2021) and has published many articles and book chapters on his research interests.

This book explores the development of transatlantic policy on international terrorism and assesses the situation today. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to terrorism and transatlantic relations, bringing together experts from contemporary history, political science, military strategy, psychology, law and security. Looking back to the roots of modern terrorism, from the late 70s to 9/11 and beyond, the volume evaluates how attitudes and approaches have changed over this period. It analyses potential solutions for finding a shared philosophy to counter the threat of transnational terrorism in the US and Europe, against a rapidly changing political landscape. Chapters cover a range of topics, including the psychology of terrorism, online propaganda, domestic terrorism, terrorism and finance and cyber security.