Political Terrorism: A New Guide To Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, And LiteratureWhile there is no easy way to define terrorism, it may generally be viewed as a method of violence in which civilians are targeted with the objective of forcing a perceived enemy into submission by creating fear, demoralization, and political friction in the population under attack. At one time a marginal field of study in the social sciences, terrorism is now very much in center stage. The 1970s terrorist attacks by the PLO, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Japanese Red Army, the Unabomber, Aum Shinrikyo, Timothy McVeigh, the World Trade Center attacks, the assault on a school in Russia, and suicide bombers have all made the term "terrorism" an all-too-common part of our vocabulary. |
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... operations directed essentially against military forces or military targets of a state or an organized armed group . " 48 2. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency ( 1980 ) : " ... the threat or use of violence for political purposes by ...
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Contents
POSTSCRIPT | 130 |
DATA AND DATA BASES ON STATE AND NONSTATE TERRORISM | 137 |
DATA AND DATA BASES ON NONGOVERNMENTAL TERRORISM | 139 |
NONCOMPUTERBASED DATA BASES | 150 |
JOURNALS AND INSTITUTES IN THE FIELD OF TERRORISM | 153 |
CHRONOLOGIES | 158 |
Federal Republic of Germany | 159 |
United States | 160 |
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THE PLACE OF TERRORISM IN POLITICAL CONFLICT | 56 |
THEORIES | 61 |
TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE THEORY | 62 |
COMMON WISDOM AND COMMON MYTHS ON TERRORISM | 68 |
THEORIES OF REGIME TERRORISM | 72 |
TERRORIST THEORIES OF TERRORISM | 79 |
PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES | 87 |
Materials for an Identification Theory of Insurgent Terrorism | 92 |
TERRORISM AS SURROGATE WARFARE | 98 |
CONSPIRACY THEORIES OF TERRORISM | 101 |
COMMUNICATION THEORY OF TERRORISM | 108 |
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES AND MODELS | 111 |
International Environment Theories | 112 |
Theories of Domestic Causation | 118 |
CONCLUSION | 127 |
Skyjacking | 161 |
Middle East | 163 |
Latin America | 164 |
DATA REQUIREMENTS | 174 |
THE LITERATURE OF TERRORISM | 177 |
THE STATE OF THE ART | 185 |
ESSENTIAL WORKS ON TERRORISM | 186 |
Conceptual and Theoretical Works | 187 |
Case Studies | 189 |
Managing and Controlling Terrorism | 190 |
Strategy of Terrorism | 192 |
State and StateSupported Terrorism | 193 |
International Terrorism | 194 |
Etiology of Terrorism | 196 |
Bibliographies | 198 |
COMPUTER DATA BASES FOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC SEARCHES ON TERRORISM | 199 |
Advantages of OnLine Searches | 200 |
Major OnLine Data Bases for Political Terrorism | 201 |
Other OnLine Data Bases | 202 |
NOTES | 207 |
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POLITICAL TERRORISM | 237 |
WORLD DIRECTORY OF TERRORIST AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH GUERRILLA WARFARE POLITICAL VIOLENC... | 485 |
LITERATURE REFERRED TO | 493 |
INDEX | 497 |