POLSCI 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport, Advantageous, Psychopathology
30 Oct 2017
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Political science 1ab3 2017 lecture 9a international terrorism. Can we define terrorism in an objective way: 2. Can we explain terrorism as a social scientific phenomenon: 3. There is a politics associated with defining terrorism. There are (cid:272)lear parallels (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) state (cid:448)iole(cid:374)(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d (cid:862)terrorist(cid:863) (cid:448)iole(cid:374)(cid:272)e: 1. Both are directed at obtaining political ends: 3. The point is, defining a group or an action as terrorist is an unavoidably political act. There is no obvious definition that would be accepted without vocal opposition from one quarter or another. The academic response to the definitional problem has been to either reject the idea that the term (cid:858)terroris(cid:373)(cid:859) (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e used o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)el(cid:455), or to di(cid:448)ide terroris(cid:373) i(cid:374)to a (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)er of for(cid:373)s: a) state terrorism. This term is used to capture cases where a government will deliberately inflict violence on civilians in an attempt to obtain a political objective: b) state-sponsored terrorism.
