Osama bin Laden's demise in May 2011 marked only the symbolic end of an era. By
the time of his killing, he no longer represented the Robin Hood icon that once
stirred global fascination. Ten years after the 11 September 2001 attacks,
jihadi terrorism has largely lost its juggernaut luster. It now mostly resembles
a patchwork of self-radicalising local groups with international contacts but
without any central organisational design - akin to the radical left terrorism
of the 1970s and the anarchist fin-de-siecle terrorism. This volume addresses
two issues that remain largely unexplored in contemporary terrorism studies. It
rehabilitates the historical and comparative analysis as a way