POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: Islamic Terrorism, Jihadism, Security Dilemma
Document Summary
Terrorists utilize the technological advances of globalization such as media and sharing info. Terrorism: the use of violence by small groups to achieve political change. Causes: ideological, ethnic, religious exclusion and persecution. Contesting views about the legitimacy of terrorist means and methods: Some say: just cause, proportional use of violence legitimate. Realists: terrorists illegitimate because states have monopoly on use of violence. Perceptions of the state itself as a terrorist threat. Terrorism, like other forms of irregular warfare: Designed to achieve political change for the purposes of obtaining power in order to right a perceived wrong. Weakest form to bring about change radical. Terrorists don"t usually have the support of the population because their ideas are. Evolution of terrorism from a transnational to a global phenomenon. Three factors led to the birth of transnational terrorism in 1968: local transnational. Expansion of commercial air travel hijackings & increased mobility.
