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Lecture 2. Terrorist Movements and Profiles.

Dr. Laura Donohue

Internet Research Materials:

 

Questions for Seminar Discussion:

  • How does Rapoport identify Thugs as terrorists? Compare his opinion with the definitions of terrorism discussed in the first lecture. What are the differences and similarities?

 

Key terms:

Insurgent terrorism

Vigilante terrorism

Single-issue terrorism

Social-revolutionary terrorism

Secessionist movements

Thugs, Assassins, “the Daggermen”

Orientalism (Edward Said)

Supremacism

Fundamentalism vs. religious extremism

Hamas, Hizbollah, Al-Qaeda

Egyptian Islamic Jihad

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades

Popular Front for Lib Palestine (PFLP)

Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)

Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Narodnaya Volya (1880s)

Red Brigades (1970s)

France’s “Reign of Terror” (1790s)

 

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