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Lecture 1. What is Terrorism?

Dr. Laura Donohue

Internet Research Materials:

 

Questions for Seminar Discussions:

  • Can terrorism be legitimate? Can gains, motives, modus operandi or ends justify its use? What are the criteria, if any, to determine if terrorism is legitimate?

  • Within this context, is it possible for an organization to be both a terrorist group and a movement for national liberation at the same time? Is there a line that separates terrorism from legitimate resistance?

 

Key terms:

Non-combatants

State vs. sub-state terror

Terror from above vs. from below

Terror vs. national liberation

Terror vs. revolutionary violence

Terror vs. urban guerilla warfare

Terror vs. civil insurrection

Terror vs. criminal acts

Terror vs. coercive diplomacy

Terrorism vs. war crimes

State terror through proxy-groups

Terrorism as "Otherness"

Terrorist credibility

Symbolic targets (of terrorists)

Terrorists’ targets of demands

Carpet bombing

"Collateral damage"

Divine vs. secular source of legitimation

"People’s right to abolish their government"

 

 

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