New Terrorism (Neumann, 2009)
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- New Terrorism (Neumann, 2009)
- The four characteristics
- National focus -> Transnational focus
- Old terrorism had transnational dimensions, such as the IRA and FLN in Algeria
- AND new groups have a national focus - look at AQ and its crievance of Wesern interference in holy land
- Old terrorism had transnational dimensions, such as the IRA and FLN in Algeria
- Hierarchical structure (IRA, Red Army faction) -> loose networks
- Italian anarchists organised in loose newtorks, PLO did too
- Politically motivated -? Religiously motivated
- There are political aims; PLO, ISIS, AQ's aim to get US forces out of Saudi
- Limited violence -> Apocaplyptic violence
- National focus -> Transnational focus
- Are the distinctions overstated? Is it unhelpful? (Jackson et al. 2010).
- YES, if you look at evidence of deaths from terrorism, there is not much change. Much of what we see today are simply essential continuities (Duyvesteyn, 2004)
- NO, there has been a lot of change in the nature of terrorism as proven by evidence (BOLANOS, 2012)
- Bolanos, 2012
- Some things are different, several of these are being shaped by the current environment
- Lethality, 9/11 was not a singularity, other examples of mass-murder such as the plan to jeopardise planes
- AQ is religiously AND politically motivated
- Some things are different, several of these are being shaped by the current environment
- The four characteristics
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