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Title: Chapter 11: Political Violence


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Chapter 11 Political Violence
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Defining Political Violence
  • Remember the Weberian definition of the state.
  • Public war v. Private War
  • Basic definition violence outside the control
    of the state which has political goals.
  • Not simply crime.
  • We are mainly concerned with CPV.

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Why Political Violence?
  • Institutional
  • Ideational
  • Individual

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Forms of CPV
  • Revolution
  • Rebellion, Revolt, Riot
  • Civil War
  • Guerrilla War
  • Terrorism
  • Other

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Terrorism
  • No widely accepted definition of terrorism.
  • A difficult political and academic question.
  • Can noble ends justify terrorist means?
  • One can discuss terrorism in three ways
    Academic, Political and Policy

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Three Ways of Looking at Terrorism (Taylor 2005)
  • Academic
  • The pursuit of a workable ideal type for the
    purpose of discussion and analysis.
  • Examples
  • ONeil the use of violence by nonstate actors
    against civilians in order to achieve a political
    goal (289).
  • Cooper terrorism is the intentional
    generation of massive fear by human beings for
    the purpose of securing or maintaining control
    over other human beings.

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Three Ways of Looking at Terrorism (Taylor 2005)
  • Political   the term has deep political
    implications and usages. There really is no
    specific political definition of terror, rather
    it tends to be in the eye of the rhetorician. To
    put it somewhat glibly (yet still accurately)
    terrorism is whatever a given government wishes
    to call it. So, when there is violence that a
    state (or whomever) does not like, it calls it
    terrorism but when that violence is considered
    to the benefit of the state of group, then it is
    not terrorism. This semantic fact is especially
    true in the post-9/11 world, in which it
    sometimes seems that all political violence is
    defined within the rhetoric of terrorism.

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Three Ways of Looking at Terrorism (Taylor 2005)
  • Policy  Beyond just the usage of the term to
    attract attention (and perhaps dollars) is the
    fact that the politicking itself is linked to
    actual political action, i.e., policy on
    terrorism. Certainly the way a given state or
    administration defines the term will affect its
    policy actions in this arena.

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