Diego Gambetta, Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford
Michael Biggs, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jon Elster, Robert K. Merton Professor of Social and Political Science, Columbia University
Peter Hill, British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford
Stephen Holmes, Professor of Law and Political Science, New York University
Stephen Hopgood, Lecturer in International Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Stathis Kalyvas, Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science University of Yale
Luca Ricolfi, Professor of Sociology, University of Turin, Italy
Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, Associate Professor of Political Science, Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Juan March Institute, Madrid

Honorable Mention for the American Society of Criminology, Division of International Criminology Distinguished Book Award 2006

"The contributions are all of a high quality, asking searching questions of the available evidence."--Foreign Affairs

"Gambetta brings together a remarkable group of academics from different disciplines and countries who bring a formidable array of research and analysis to their attempt to make sense of suicide missions. This is an important book, and the best treatment of the subject I've read."--Louise Richardson, Financial Times

"Making Sense of Suicide Missions is an enlightening collection of essays, so badly needed in the prevalent mood of misconceptions and half-baked analysis."--The Guardian

"... in a fascinating contribution to the new essay collection Making Sense of Suicide Missions, the Yale political scientist Stathis Kalyvas and a Spanish colleague, Ignacio Sanchez Cuenca, point out that FARC, the Columbian rebel group, once hatched a plan to fly a plane into that country's presidential palace but could find no willing pilot, even after dangling an offer of $2 million for the pilot's family."--Boston Globe

"This thoughtful and engrossing book underlines the pointlessness of a rage that is truly self-destructive, even if we may have to continue looking warily on the Tube for a while."--The Evening Standard

"A stunning essay on al-Qaeda and 11 September 2001 ...challenging and timely book."--New Statesman

"The book effectively balances qualitative, quantitative, and analytic approaches. The case studies are deeply researched, riveting, and compelling. And each is shaped to engage the basic question: Why? To the degree that is possible, the attempts to answer this question are based on rigorous forms of inference and reasoning. The book is therefore a joy to teach from. It should claim the attention of both academics and policy makers."--Robert H. Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University