Review of the publication “DEFINING TERRORISM” by Prof. Emeritus Alex P. Schmid, PhD

Abstract

The publication - report entitled “Defining Terrorism”, authored by Professor Emeritus Alex P. Schmid (1943), was published in March 2023 by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism. In addition to the abstract, the report is divided into five parts: Introduction; Psychology of Terror – The Fear and Threat Factor; Definitions; Conclusion and Appendix: A Selection of Definitions/Descriptions of Terrorism. At the end, a bibliography and information about the author are listed. Professor Emeritus Alex P. Schmid, PhD, is a leading world expert on security science and counter-terrorism and an associate of the International Center for Counter-Terrorism. Between 1978 and 2018, Alex Schmid was a professor at Leiden University, Erasmus University (Rotterdam) and St. Andrews University, as well as visiting professor at other universities, including Harvard and Nanyang. Emeritus Schmid is a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Also, between 1999 and 2005, Dr. Schmid was Officer in Charge of the UNODC’s Terrorism Prevention Branch in Vienna. Since 2009, he has been one of the three directors of the Terrorism Research Initiative, a consortium of institutes and scholars working together to study terrorism.