In the decade since September 11th, there has been a deluge of works on the political responses to terrorism in the United States. The bulk of these works have focused on how the U.S. has responded rightly, or wrongly, to terrorism since this time. Mathieu Deflem’s THE POLICING OF TERRORISM is not one of these works. Indeed, on the surface it does not take an overt position regarding what some see as the massive blunders of the Bush administration’s political response to September 11th, and others see as a largely successful response to terrorism that prevented further large-scale terrorist attacks in the United States. Deflem does not ignore these debates, and mentions them in several places though his work. However, his primary focus is rather on the question of how policing agencies in the United States, Europe, Israel, and elsewhere are organized to respond to terrorism, and under what auspices such agencies function. The bulk of Deflem’s book thus involves a thorough overview of the organization and strategies of counterterrorism by policing agencies in the United States and globally. Deflem devotes significant attention to the policing of terrorism in the United States, particularly following September 11th, but he also gives ample attention to policing efforts in other countries (in particular Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan), as well as to international policing organizations, such as Interpol involved in counterterrorism.