1. Introduction: Theorizing Boko Haram: Understanding the Terrorist Threat, Hussein Solomon

Part I: The Long Duree

2. Boko Haram: A Jihadist Enigma in Nigeria, Marc-Antoine Perouse de Montclos

3. The Boko Haram Paradox: Ethnicity, Religion, and Historical Memory in Pursuit of a Caliphate, Zacharias P. Pieri and Jacob Zenn

4. Old Wine in a New Bottle: Ideological and Operational Linkages between Maitatsine and Boko Haram Revolts in Nigeria, Iro Aghedo

Part II: The Nigerian State and Boko Haram

5. Boko Haram and the Widening of Cleavages in Nigeria, Azeez Olaniyan and Lucky Asuelime

6. Identity, Deprivation, Terror: Why Boko Haram Rebels, Daniel Agbiboa

7. The Elusive Quest for Peace: Boko Haram and the Hollowness of Nigeria’s Counterinsurgency Strategy and Weak Security Architecture, Olabanji Akinola

8. Mopping the Wet Floor of a Leaking Roof: Fighting Terror While Overlooking Radicalization, Ibaba Samuel Ibaba and Anthony Okoye

Part III: Responses

9. Portents of a Fractured Boko Haram for Nigeria’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy and Tactics, Gbemisola Abdul-Jelil Animasawun

10. Effective Counter-Terrorism Against Boko Haram: Empirical Assessments of Coercion, Delegitimization, Incentivization and Denial Strategies in Nigeria (2009-2014), John A. Stevenson, Amy Pate, Elvis Asiamah

11. The Western Response, Virginia Comolli

12. Responding to Boko Haram: interrogating the Effectiveness of State and Regional Intervention Approaches, Kwesi Aning, Mustapha Abdallah and Festus Aubyn

13. Conclusion: Nigeria and a War across States in Northwest Africa, James J. Hentz