Origins of Terrorism: The Rise of the World's Most Formidable Terrorist Groups
暫譯: 恐怖主義的起源：全球最具威脅性的恐怖組織崛起

《恐怖主義的起源：全球最可怕恐怖組織的崛起》探討了伊斯蘭恐怖主義的根源、歷史以及一些著名恐怖組織的基礎人物。全書同時討論了恐怖主義的使用、恐怖分子目標的「如何」與「為何」，以及他們的作戰方式（modus operandi）。

歷史上，叛亂行動構成了多個恐怖組織的基礎——對西方勢力，特別是美國的抵抗，以及對其在地區事務中被視為不受歡迎的干預的反抗。書中專門介紹了各個恐怖組織，包括一些最知名且韌性十足的全球運動——如基地組織（Al Qaeda）、伊斯蘭國（ISIS）、塔利班（Taliban）和博科哈拉姆（Boko Haram）等。內容詳細說明了這些組織的起源地和起源方式，主要組織者是誰，這些個體如何合作——或不合作。作者在此探討了促成這些領導者及其組織發展和成功的環境。

在這方面，作者揭示了有趣且鮮為人知的故事和事實，關於這些組織創始人的成長背景、家庭生活和個人敘事，以及與其他恐怖創始人和組織的聯繫。例如，對於奧薩馬·本·拉登（Osama bin Laden）和穆薩布·阿爾·扎卡維（Musab al Zarkawi，亦稱阿哈邁德·阿爾·哈萊萊赫）——「伊拉克基地組織」（AQI）的創始人，後來成為ISIS——的關係進行了詳細的探討，為讀者提供了一些「故事背後的故事」，以理解主要恐怖組織的著名人物及其哲學、形成和持久力的基礎。

《恐怖主義的起源》將成為安全和情報專業人士、恐怖主義研究者和學生的重要資源，提供獨特的視角來理解恐怖主義和恐怖運動，並考慮反恐努力。

Dr. Godfrey Garner holds a PhD in counseling psychology from Mississippi State University. Following two tours in Viet Nam and a lengthy break in military service, Dr. Garner rejoined and eventually retired from 20th Special Forces group in 2006. He completed two military, and six civilian government-related tours in Afghanistan. His work in Afghanistan most recently has been as a counterinsurgency intelligence analyst. He is published in Homeland Security Today, Journal of American Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Journal on issues relating to Afghanistan. He is the author of the novels Danny Kane and the Hunt for Mullah Omar, Clothed in White Raiment, and The Balance of Exodus, coauthor of Intelligence Analysis Fundamentals, published by Taylor Francis CRC, as well as an upcoming memoir on Vietnam entitled Brothers in the Mekong Delta: A Memoir of PBR Section 513 in the Vietnam War. He is a permanent faculty professor at Mississippi College, as well as adjunct at Tulane University and Belhaven University, in Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.　

Maeghin Alarid-Hughes　holds an MA in International Security and Homeland Defense and a graduate certificate in Terrorism Analysis. She is an Adjunct Professor in: Terrorism and Risk Analysis for Arapahoe Community College out of Colorado. She is a subject matter expert and consultant in Counterterrorism for　Guidepoint. She was the Project Coordinator for Project Arrowhead, a Department of Homeland Security-funded countering violent extremism project through Mississippi College. She was an Anti-Terrorism specialist and a consultant for a physical security company out of Texas, Specialized Risk, LLC. She was the lead policy analyst at the Institute for National Security Studies onsite at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, working arms control, nonproliferation and strategic stability issues for the Air Force. She has fifteen years of experience working for the Department of Defense, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and every branch of the military. She was a terrorism instructor at the Defense Nuclear Weapons School where she created the school's first course on Female Suicide Bombers. She was asked to present her research on Female Recruitment and Radicalization Online at the Women's Peace and Security Conference in 2015. Her research was published in the book, "Impunity: Countering Illicit Power in War and Transition" by the National Defense University. She is also a contributing author in the book "Online Terrorist Propaganda, Recruitment, and Radicalization", by CRC Press. She has worked in countering violent extremism and social media monitoring for the last nine years. She has worked with State, Federal, and Military first responders as well as international students and has traveled to various military bases throughout the United States instructing response to radiological terrorism.　

戈弗瑞·加納博士擁有密西西比州立大學的諮詢心理學博士學位。在越南服役兩次及長期的軍事服務後，加納博士於2006年重新加入並最終從第20特種部隊退役。他在阿富汗完成了兩次軍事任務和六次與政府相關的民間任務。他在阿富汗最近的工作是反叛亂情報分析師。他在《國土安全今日》、《美國外交期刊》和《外交政策期刊》上發表過有關阿富汗的文章。他是小說《丹尼·凱恩與追捕穆拉·奧馬爾》、《白袍之下》和《出埃及記的平衡》的作者，並且是《情報分析基礎》一書的合著者，該書由泰勒·弗朗西斯CRC出版，還有即將出版的越南回憶錄《湄公河三兄弟：越南戰爭PBR第513小組的回憶》。他是密西西比學院的全職教授，同時也是杜蘭大學和貝爾哈文大學的兼任教授，專注於國土安全和反恐。

梅根·阿拉里德-休斯擁有國際安全與國土防衛的碩士學位，以及恐怖主義分析的研究生證書。她是科羅拉多州阿拉帕霍社區學院的兼任教授，教授恐怖主義與風險分析。她是Guidepoint的反恐專家和顧問。她曾擔任國土安全部資助的反對暴力極端主義項目“箭頭計劃”的項目協調員，該項目通過密西西比學院進行。她曾是德克薩斯州一家物理安全公司的反恐專家和顧問，該公司名為Specialized Risk, LLC。她曾在科羅拉多斯普林斯的空軍學院國家安全研究所擔任首席政策分析師，負責武器控制、不擴散和戰略穩定問題。她在國防部、國防威脅減少局及各軍種工作了十五年。她曾是國防核武器學校的恐怖主義講師，創建了該校首個關於女性自殺炸彈的課程。2015年，她受邀在女性和平與安全會議上發表有關女性招募和線上激進化的研究。她的研究發表在國防大學的書籍《不受懲罰：在戰爭與過渡中反對非法權力》中。她也是CRC Press出版的書籍《線上恐怖主義宣傳、招募與激進化》的貢獻作者。在過去九年中，她一直從事反對暴力極端主義和社交媒體監控的工作。她曾與州、聯邦和軍事第一反應者以及國際學生合作，並在美國各地的軍事基地教授對放射性恐怖主義的應對。