Editor's Introduction: A decade on from 11 September 2001: what has critical terrorism studies learned?

The articles in this special issue are drawn from papers presented at a conference held to mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The conference, entitled A Decade of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism since 9/11: Taking Stock and New Directions in Research and Policy, was organised by the Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group of the British International Studies Association and was held at the University of Strathclyde with support from the British Academy from 8 to 11 September 2011. The conference aimed to play a significant role in the reorientation of terrorism studies towards a more empirically informed and theoretically sophisticated practice of studies of political violence through the engagement of scholars in a multidisciplinary dialogue. The articles in this issue reflect those aims.