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Title: Third Edition Understanding Terrorism Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues


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Third EditionUnderstanding TerrorismChallenges,
Perspectives, and Issues
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Chapter 8
  • Terrorist Spillovers
  • International Terrorism

3
Defining International Terrorism
  • The Spillover Effect
  • The struggle spills over into the international
    domain.
  • Domestic attacks against victims with an
    international profile.
  • Operations in a foreign country.
  • Unambiguous International Implications
  • International consequences must be clear.
  • Case Attacks on embassies.
  • Case Airline hijackings.

4
Defining International Terrorism(continued)
  • Terrorist Environments and International
    Terrorism
  • International state terrorism.
  • International dissident terrorism.
  • International religious terrorism.
  • International left-wing terrorism.
  • International right-wing terrorism.
  • International criminal terrorism.

5
International Terrorist Environments
6
Reasons for International Terrorism
  • Modern isms and International Revolutionary
    Solidarity
  • Cold War motivations for international
    resistance.
  • Imperialism.
  • Neocolonialism.
  • Zionism.

7
Reasons for International Terrorism(continued)
  • Perceived Efficiency
  • Potential for maximum publicity.
  • Potential for inflicting maximum psychological
    anxiety.
  • Pragmatism.
  • Adaptations of Revolutionary Theory
  • Fish swimming in the sea of the people.
  • Enraging the beast.
  • Liberating violence.

8
Reasons for International Terrorism(continued)
  • Historical Reasons
  • West was often a target during wars of national
    liberation.
  • Anticolonial rebels became national leaders.
  • Terrorism was a matter of pragmatic choice.
  • Fusion of ideology and warfare.

9
International Terrorist Networks
  • Cold War Terrorist-Networking Theory
  • Western theory that Soviet proxies were the
    source of international terrorism.
  • Uncomplicated and simplistic scenario.
  • International Terrorist Environments
  • Monolithic.
  • Strong multipolar.
  • Weak multipolar.
  • Cell-based.

10
International Terrorist Environments
11
International Dimension of the New Terrorism
  • A Stateless Revolution by Religious Radicals
  • The Afghan Arabs at War
  • Mujahideen in Bosnia
  • Al Qaeda and International Terrorism
  • The Madrid Train Bombings
  • The London Transportation System Attacks
  • Terrorist Violence in Iraq

12
The Stateless Revolutionaries
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