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This 8 page paper analyzes terrorism, including its typology, ideology and strategy, and gives examples of terrorism throughout history, including the Jacobins and the Reign of Terror, Carlo Pisacane and the Narodnaya. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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meant by the terms ideology, strategy and typology when applied to terrorists. Terrorists Today Whenever the word "terrorism" is mentioned, most Americans immediately think of 9/11 and the outrage and
sorrow that followed the attack. This visceral response makes it difficult to consider terrorism objectively and not on an emotional level. The government was quick to state that we were
attacked because the terrorists hate our culture and our freedoms, but a study of terrorism reveals that this is not the case. It is believed that terrorists operate as they
do because of a sense of being powerless within their own societies; it has little to do with other cultures. Ideology: We live in a world in which terrorist attacks
are distressingly frequent: there were more than 6,100 such attacks between 1968 and 2003, resulting in "more than 36,000 deaths and injuries" (Robison, Crenshaw and Jenkins, 2006, p. 2009). Among
the explanations offered for the attack are the "standard" ones that emphasize "inequality and the social strains of transitional development"; in addition, experts now suggest additional causes such as "globalization
... political repression ... the cultural clash between Western and Islamist values ... and the pro-Israeli stance of the United States" (Robison, Crenshaw and Jenkins, 2006, p. 2009). Robison and
his colleagues suggest that at least some of the ideology driving terrorism is religious in origin, as "the end of the Cold War ushered in a new geopolitical era in
which the traditional superpower clash and related debates between Marxist and capitalist ideologies have been supplanted by cultural clashes defined in religious and civilizational terms" (Robison, Crenshaw and Jenkins, 2006,
p. 2009). Thus in this new world, religion has replaced nationalism as the ideological justification for "transnational terrorism" (Robison, Crenshaw and Jenkins, 2006, p. 2009). Typology: The definition of
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