ProQuest is pleased to offer Terrorism: An International Resource File. This landmark collection consist of policy statements, position papers, lectures, reports, newsletters, conference proceedings, broadcasts, manuals, and other material drawn from numerous governmental, non-governmental, and intergovernmental sources. This collection and corresponding online finding aid present a window into modern academic discourse and governmental policy related to terrorism and political violence spanning three decades.

The documents included in the microfiche collection are now discoverable via an enhanced Online Guide. This web-based tool allows users to search documents by author, title, subject, keyword, and geographic area. Over 1,500 hard-to-find and specially selected documents are included in the microfiche, covering all aspects of terrorism: from motivations to responses; from hostage-taking and nuclear intimidation to state-sponsored terrorism and the role of the media. The collection presently contains documents from the period 1970-1990. Additionally, the online guide provides reference citations to hundreds of other relevant documents not included in the fiche series.

Dr. Yonah Alexander, Co-Director of the International Law Institute and Professor at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, served as General Editor of the project and chairman of an International Advisory Board for the selection of its content. An author and editor of over 30 books on terrorism, Dr. Alexander was formerly the Director of the Institute for Studies in International Terrorism at the State University of New York and is associated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the U.S. Global Strategy Council, and the Institute of Social and Behavioral Pathology.

"Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one. This way of thinking - this self-certainty - is based on not being educated."
- Shirin Ebadi (Iranian lawyer and activist, first Muslim woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize)