POLSCI 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport
5 Mar 2020
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Political science 1ab3 2020 lecture 9a international terrorism. We will explore three overarching debates about terrorism: It is necessary to define terrorism before you can analyze it. There is a politics associated with defining terrorism. After all, there are clear parallels between state violence and non-state terrorist violence: both often kill civilians, both are directed at obtaining political ends, both cause terror in their wake. What to make of the clich : one person"s terrorist is another person"s freedom fighter . The point is, defining a group or an action as terrorist is often an unavoidably political act. There is no obvious definition of terrorism that would be accepted without vocal opposition. The academic response to the definitional problem has been to either reject the term. Terrorism" altogether: or to divide terrorism into a number of different types: This term is used to capture cases where a state deliberately inflicts violence on civilians.
