George Kassimeris, a Senior Research Fellow in Conflict and Terrorism at the University of Wolverhampton, is the author of Europe's Last Red Terrorists, the first book on Greece's notorious terrorist group and the editor of The Barbarisation of Warfare and Playing Politics with Terrorism: A User's Guide. He is the joint-editor of Critical Studies on Terrorism and also serves on the editorial boards of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism and Prospect magazine, Britain's leading intellectual monthly. He comments regularly on current security affairs for the BBC and other international media.