Chapter 5 Flashcards
A system that distributes political and economic power to a small group of regime supporters within the state while holding society in check by force
Patrimonialism
Violence outside of state control that is politically motivated.
Political Violence
Public seizure of the state in order to overturn the existing government and regime
Revolution
Elites overthrow the government
Coup d’Etat
The model that predicts revolution when public expectations outpace the rate of domestic change.
Relative Deprivation Model
Terrorism supported directly by a state as an instrument of foreign policy.
State-sponsored terrorism
A conflict whereby non-state combatants, who largely abide by the rules of war, target the state.
Guerilla War
A belief that all institutions and values are essentially meaningless and that the only redeeming value is violence.
Nihilist
The most extreme of these groups has been the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS). First organized as a branch of Al Qaeda against the United States in Iraq, following the Arab Spring it began to expand into Syria through a mixture of guerrilla warfare.
ISIS
Terrorists believe that through their seemingly indiscriminate use of violence, all the dominant institutions can be shattered and remade. Consider, for example, this passage from an early manifesto of the Peruvian terrorist group the Shining Path.
Shining Path
An ideology or belief that terrorists and extreme groups use to justify terrorism and political violence.
Jihad
The desire to unite faith and the state, transforming religion into the ideological foundation for a political regime.
Fundamentalism/Religious Fundamentalism
In this view, the modern world not only actively marginalizes, humiliates, and denigrates the views of religious believers but also seeks to exterminate the believers outright.
Martyrdom
Cosmic War
The Turner Diaries has been described as “arguably the most important single work of white nationalist propaganda in the English language. It describes the creation of a dedicated underground that would attack symbols of American authority, seize territory, and eventually launch a nuclear attack against itself.
The Turner Diaries
Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the federal courthouse in Oklahoma City in 1995, which killed 168 people, was directly inspired by The Turner Diaries and Pierce’s argument that terrorism could trigger a revolution.
Timothy McVeigh
