The Munich Massacre: Contemporary Thoughts and Views on Sport and Terrorism from a Global Perspective

This book contextualizes the Munich massacre as one of the factors that contributed to a re-thinking of security strategies in the early 1970s, a moment in the evolution of modern governments’ fight against terrorism.

The chapters in this book were first published as a special issue of Israel Affairs.

Yair Galily is Behavioral Science Professor and Senior Lecturer in Communication and Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya; Senior Fellow at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism Policy (ICT); Founder and head of the research unit at the Israel Football Association; and a member of the Club Licensing Committee of the European Football Association (UEFA).

Ilan Tamir is Professor at the School of Communication, Ariel University, Israel, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, USA.