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This chapter takes issue with the claims of critical terrorism studies scholars that we lack a literature on state terrorism. This wide-ranging survey article explores the comparative literature to offer some much needed historical perspective to ...
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On the Moral Justifiability of Terrorism (State and Otherwise)
Characterizes and discusses terrorism and considers when, if ever, terrorism might be morally justified. Focuses on "state terrorism" arguing that it is the main engine for creating and sustaining other forms of terrorism.
Kai Nielsen
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Anti-terrorism resolutions: the Security Council’s threat to the UN system [PDF]
The United Nations Security Council’s anti-terrorism regime constitutes a serious threat to the legitimacy and unity of the United Nations system as a whole.
Galloway, Fraser
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This is not your mother’s terrorism: social media, online radicalization and the practice of political jamming [PDF]
It is commonly recognized that social media presents vast new opportunities for terrorist groups seeking to radicalize audiences. However, few scholars have studied the actual mechanisms by which radicalizing messages are delivered to those audiences ...
Huey, Laura
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Challenge Presented to the State Sovereignty by the International Terrorism
International terrorism acquires new forms and intervenes with old challenges and threats among which there is a threat to the state sovereignty. The fertile soil for terrorism is offered by religious extremism, regional conflicts, drug trafficking ...
N. B. Pastukhova
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“Dirty Wars”, human rights and the problem of countering state terrorism in Latin America
Background. The concept of “dirty war” began to be actively used in Latin America in the second half of the 20th century to define civil conflict. This term was later spread in other countries in the characteristics of the military operations of the ...
V.G. Romanovskiy
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Off with their heads: the Islamic State and civilian beheadings [PDF]
This commentary evaluates the use of beheadings by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. We place beheadings in a broader historical context and draw from academic research in terrorism studies and the social sciences to explain why the Islamic State has ...
Zech, Steven T., Kelly, Zane M.
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Lone wolves in cyberspace [PDF]
Lone-wolf terrorism has been regarded as a serious threat to public safety in recent years. Moreover, the phenomenon appears to be increasing at an alarming rate.
Weimann, Gabriel
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In this study we analyse the political violence and put into perspective the problem of state terrorism in the field of recent history in Argentina. For this purpose, we will critically examine the immanentist conception of political violence.
César Manuel Román Yáñez
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Media discourse on jihadist terrorism in Europe [PDF]
This article analyzes the manner in which European print media discuss jihadist terrorism in Europe. It presents key results from a qualitative analysis of media discourse following three selected attacks in seven European countries in 2010: the attack ...
Reinke de Buitrago, Sybille
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