Academic work
Monographs
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006) Random House (New York), John Murray (London), Contact (Amsterdam), Campus Verlag (Frankfurt), Lexecon (Hungary), Motibo/Topos (Greece)
(Reviews available from The New York Times, New York Review of Books, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Irish Times, The Guardian, The (London) Times, Der Spiegel and others
When Allies Differ: Anglo-American Relations in the Suez and Falkland Crises (1996) St. Martins Press (New York)
(Reviews available from American Political Science Review, Political Science Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, and Politische Vierteljahresschrift)
Edited volumes
Robert Art and Louise Richardson, (eds.) Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past, United States Institute of Peace, Washington DC. (2007)
Louise Richardson (ed.) The Roots of Terrorism, Routledge, New York. (2006)
Chapters
"Strategic and Military Planning 1815-1856" in Imlay, Talbot C. and Monica Duffy Toft (eds.) Military and Strategic Planning Under Uncertainty: The Fog of Peace, Strategy and History Series, Frank Cass. (Routledge: 2005)
"State Sponsorship - a Root Cause of Terrorism?" in Bjørgo, T. (ed.) Root Causes of Terrorism: Proceedings from an International Expert Meeting in Oslo, 9 - 11 June 2003, Oslo: The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, NUPI Conference Proceedings, June 2003. (Routledge: 2005)
"Fighting against Terrorism and for Justice - in Bryan Hehir, (ed.) Liberty and Power: A Dialogue on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy in an Unjust World, Pew Forum Dialogue Series, Brookings Institution, 2004.
"Conflict Theory and the Trajectory of Terrorist Campaigns in Western Europe" with Leonard Weinberg, in Andrew Silke (eds.) Research on Terrorism: Trends, Achievements and Failures, Frank Cass, 2004.
"A force for good in the world? Britain's role in the Kosovo crisis" in Marc Brawley and Pierre Martin (eds.) Allied Force or Forced Allies? St Martin"s Press, 2001.
"A Spiral of Peace? Bringing an end to ethnic conflict in Northern Ireland" in Peter Waldmann and Heinrich Krumwiede, (eds.) Regulating Civil Wars, Nomos, Germany, 2000, pp.166-184.
"The Concert of Europe and Security Management in the Nineteenth Century" in H. Haftendorn, R. Keohane and C. Wallander, (eds.) Imperfect Unions: Security Institutions over Time and Space, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 48-80.
"British State Strategies after the Cold War" in Robert Keohane, Joseph Nye and Stanley Hoffmann (eds.) After the Cold War: International Institutions and State Strategies in Europe, 1989"1991, Harvard University Press, 1993, pp. 148-170.
Articles
"Restoration, Education, and Coordination: Three Principles to Guide U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts Over the Next Five Years." Advance, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2008.
"What"s in a Name? When It Comes to Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, A Great Deal." Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Vol. 8, Issue 3, December 2007.
"The Quiet Lessons of Northern Ireland." The Boston Globe, August 2, 2007, OP-ED, p. A9.
"Terrorist Rivals: Beyond the State-Centric Model." Harvard International Review, Vol. 29, #1, Spring 2007, pp. 66-69.
"A war that cannot be won." The World Today, Vol. 62, #8&9, August/September 2006, pp. 9-11.
"La hidra de mil causas." Foreign Policy Edición Española, No. 8, April/May 2005, pp. 36-37.
"Buying Biosafety - Is the Price Right?" New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 350, #21, 20 May 2004, pp. 2121-23.
Oral Statement on "The Financing of Terror Organizations, Counterterror Initiatives in the Terror Finance Program: Organization of Terror Groups for Funding and Future U.S. Responses." Appearance for Hearing of U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs on October 22, 2003.
"The Path to the Development of a Common Foreign and Security Policy in Europe." Harvard Focus Europe, Vol. 1, #2, Spring 2000, pp. 21-25.
"Terrorists as Transnational Actors." Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 11, # 4, Winter 1999 pp. 209-220. Also in Harvard International Review, Vol. 20, # 4, Fall 1998, pp. 52-57.
"Avoiding and Incurring Losses: Prospect Theory and the Suez Crisis." International Journal, Spring 1992, pp. 370-401. Also in, Janice Gross Stein and Louis W. Pauley, Choosing to Co-operate: How States Avoid Loss, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp. 170-201.
"Public Ownership vs. Energy Conservation: A Paradox of Utility Regulation." Richardson, Louise and James Q. Wilson in Regulation, September/October, 1985, pp. 13-38.
Reviews
New York Times Sunday Book Review, 26 April 2009, Michael Burleigh, Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism
Financial Times Magazine, Issue No. 112, July 2/July 3 2005, Blasts from the Past
Twentieth Century British History, Winter 2000, A. Gorst, Whitehall and the Suez Crisis
Terrorism and Political Violence, Autumn 1999, Jessica Stern, The Ultimate Terrorists
Political Science Quarterly, Summer 1999, Bruce Hoffman, Inside Terrorism
British Politics Newsletter, Fall 1990, Douglas Kinney, National Interest National Honor
Policy Sciences, August 1983, Michel Crozier, Strategies for Change
Book reviews
New York Review of Books, 30 November 2006, Max Rodenbeck, How Terrible is it?
Salon - Book Review, September 15 2006
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/09/15/richardson/
New York Times - Book Review, September 10 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/books/review/Walker.t.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0905/p14s02-bogn.html
Financial Times - Book Review, June 9, 2006 (PDF, 7 KB)