Walter Laqueur (born 1921) is an American historian and political commentator. 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

He was born in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) in 1921. He lived in Palestine/Israel 1938-53, and since then in England and the USA. Wrocław. ... Wrocław, ( [:vrɔʦwaf]), German Breslau, Czech Vratislav, Latin Wratislavia; many Polish documents in English use the spelling Wroclaw) is the capital of Silesia in southwestern Poland, situated on the Oder River (Odra). ... ...

He was Director Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library in London 1965-1994. Founder and editor (with George Mosse) Journal of Contemporary History. Founder and Editor Survey 1956-1964. Founding editor ofr The Washington Papers. Since 1969 member, later Chairman (until 2000) International Research Council CSIS Washington. Professor of History of Ideas at Brandeis University 1968-1972 , University Professor Georgetown University 1976-1988. Visiting professor of history and government at Harvard, Chicago, Tel Aviv, Johns Hopkins. . Brandeis University is a small, private university in Waltham, Massachusetts. ... Georgetown University should not be confused with the University of Georgetown in Georgetown, Guyana or Georgetown College in Georgetown, KY. Georgetown University is a university in the United States. ...

His main works deal with European history in the 19th and 20th century as well as Russia and the Middle East. His books have been translated into many languages and he was one of the founders of the systematic study of political violence, guerrilla warfare, and terrorism. His comments on international affairs have appeared in many American and European newspapers and periodicals. Political terrorism is a form of terrorism (a tactic of violence that targets civilians) used to influence socio-political events so that gains occur that might not have otherwise happened by peaceful means or by conventional warfare. ... Guerrilla War redirects here. ... The term terrorism is largely synonymous with political violence, and refers to a strategy of using coordinated attacks that typically fall outside the time, manner of conduct, and place commonly understood as representing the bounds of conventional warfare. ...

Works

• Young Germany: A History of the German Youth Movement (1962)
• Europe in Our Time, A History
• A History of Zionism (1972)
• Europe since Hitler (1973)
• Fascism: A Reader's Guide (1982)
• Weimar: A Cultural History, 1918-1933 (1976)
• The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth About Hitler's Final Solution (1980)
• An Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict (1984) editor, with Barry Rubin
• Breaking silence (1986)
• The Age of Terrorism (1987)
• Thursday's Child Has Far to Go: A Memoir of the Journeying Years (1992) autobiography
• Black Hundred: The Rise Of The Russian Extreme Right (1993)
• Fascism - Past, Present & Future (1996)
• Guerrilla Warfare: A Historical and Critical Study (1998)
• Confronting History (2000) autobiography
• The New Terrorism: Fanaticism & the Arms of Mass Destruction (2000)
• The Holocaust Encyclopedia (2001) edited with Judith Tydor Baumel
• No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century (2003)
• Voices Of Terror: Manifestos, Writings & Manuals of Al Qaeda, Hamas, & other Terrorists from around the World & Throughout the Ages (2004)