It includes informative updates on earlier terrorist events and an exhaustive bibliography of the literature on terrorism published over the past 50 years. The most up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative reference source on global terrorism brings Mickolus's coverage of political violence around the world up to the end of 2004.

The authoritative collection of post-9/11 terrorist acts around the world, large or small, isolated or patterned, This is the most recent of Mickolus's Chronologies, reaching back to 1960. It includes informative updates on earlier terrorist events and an exhaustive bibliography of the literature on terrorism published over the past fifty years.