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ISBN: 0-9743091-3-3
Price: $325
First Edition
2 volumes, 1,200 pages
Publication Date:
November 2005

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"Until now, students, analysts, journalists, and professionals had to page through dozens of spine-broken volumes of State department reports to discern trends or trace historical developments. Thanks to Berkshire Publishing, we can clear away a shelf of surplus tomes and replace it with a valuable two-book tool. With its clear charts, historical overviews and intelligent organization, this is a must for any serious researcher of global terrorism."

--Richard Miniter, author of Losing bin Laden and Shadow War.

Patterns of Global Terrorism

U.S. Department of State Reports with Supplementary Documents and Statistics, An

Berkshire Publishing Group is pleased to announce Patterns of Global Terrorism 1985-2005: U.S. Department of State Reports with Supplementary Documents and Statistics. Berkshire Publishing, specialists in global topics and known for coverage of international political and religious trends, has organized the reports and related data into a coherent, accessible resource in two volumes.

These important documents have a dramatic history themselves. In the aftermath of 9/11 and the U.S. government’s efforts to understand and combat terrorism, the annual Patterns of Global Terrorism report became a political football. The statistical data on terrorist incidents around the world were incorrectly reported in the 2003 report, and then corrected: here.

In April 2005, the U.S. Department of State announced that it would no longer publish the reports. A blogger and security specialist Larry C. Johnson announced that the government was suppressing the report because it showed clearly that the war on terror wasn’t working: significant incidents of terrorism in 2004 were the highest ever recorded, and loss of life in 2004 was the second highest in 35 years (2001 continues to be the highest).

Berkshire’s Patterns of Global Terrorism 1985-2005: U.S. Department of State Reports with Supplementary Documents and Statistics is arranged in a user-friendly format replete with tables, graphs, and illustrative material—much of it from the original reports but with additional material developed by Berkshire and its editors (and clearly indicated as additional content). This reference set is an essential resource for every college, school, and public library. A full, comprehensive index guides readers, and summary definitions, chronologies, and year-to-year comparisons provide broad context.

Fifteen related government documents are integrated to provide context and to give readers a sense of the debates, past and present, about global terrorism.