The Counterterrorism Yearbook 2018 provides a comprehensive assessment of how different countries and regions across the world are tackling the threat of terrorism.

The objective of the yearbook is to communicate the complex and often impenetrable aspects of counterterrorism (CT) measures to a wide audience of academic, professional and general interest readers.

The chapters are written by subject matter experts and regional scholars. Their detailed knowledge of CT is demonstrated in their careful and nuanced explanations, assessments and critiques of how high-level CT policies, strategies and operations affect people on the ground.

The yearbook reflects the constantly changing terrorist threat landscape and the ways in which governments need to develop flexible and adaptable policies and strategies to be able to address those changes. For example, this year we’ve dedicated a chapter to exploring the insurgency in Marawi, southern Mindanao, which was led by Islamic State (IS), and the implications for CT policies in the Philippines and surrounding region. We also felt that more attention needed to be paid to how governments are dealing with the growing threat of ‘cyber-terrorism’. We have a chapter authored by a leading practitioner on the challenges of fighting IS in Iraq, as well as two chapters on Africa aimed at highlighting how violent the Islamist insurgency has become in the non-Western world.