Edited papers presented at an international conference held in Hobart, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-308) and index.

Contemporary political violence - new terror in the global village / David Martin Jones and Mike Smith -- Uncertain diagnosis : megalomaniacal hyper-terrorism and an unending war for the future? / Paul Schulte -- Anti-globalisation.com : the paradox and the threat of contemporary violent protest / Grant Wardlaw -- The al-Qaeda threat and the international response / Rohan Gunaratna -- Islamic extremism and wahhabism / Clive Williams -- Trends in the development of terrorist bombing / Angus Muir -- The chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threat - exaggeration or apocalypse soon? / Gavin Cameron -- The asymmetric character of the evolving chemical, biological and nuclear (CBN) threat / Franðcois Haut -- Information age terrorism and warfare / Kevin A. O'Brien -- The networking of terror in the information age / Michael Zanini -- Southeast Asia after September 11 / James Cotton -- The persistence of armed Muslin rebellion in Southeast Asia : implications after September 11 / Andrew Tan -- Organised crime and terrorism in the Asia Pacific region : the reality and the response / John MacFarlane -- The politics of the southeast Asian heroin trade / Peter Chalk -- Post-September 11 legislative responses to terrorism / Mark Weeding -- Australia after September 11 : the intelligence challenge / Dennis Richardson -- Terrorism today - terrorism and international regimes / Richard Butler.