Week 4 Flashcards
Settings for terrorism
Preconditoins
Precipitants
Permissive factors
Short run objectives for terrorism
gain attention
dirupt or discredit process of government
affect public attitudes, positive or negative
provoke counterreaction from the government
reasons to adapt terrorism
historical moment seems to present an unique chance
similair resistance groups have succeeded
dramatic failure of alternative means
internal politics
Preconditions
set the stage for the long run
Precipitants
specific events that immediately precede the occurence of terrorism
Permissive factors
oppurtunities for terrorism to happen
Individual reasons
Groups with similair backgrounds
strong pereption of violence
tollerate high risk
group activity, otherwise isolated from society
guilt
strategic model
(1) terrorist motivated by stable motives
(2) evaluate expected pays offs
(3) adopted terrorism when other options didn’t work
Puzzeling tendencies
coercive ineffectiveness
terrorism as first resort
reflexively uncompromising
protean political platforms
anonymous attacks
terrorist fratricide
never-ending terrorism
Counterrrorism
supply side: identify possible terrorists
demand side: drive wedge between members
Famous foreign fighters
George orwell: Spain
Hammingway: Italy WWI
Lord Byron: Ottoman empire
Pre-Syria foreign fighters
Zuaafs: Helping pope in Rome
Hollander corps: Fighting agianst britain in boerenwar
Fighting facism in spain
Joing german army to fight against SU
Pre-Syria foreign fighters jhadist fighters
Kashmir, somalia, afghanisatan, pakistan, chechenya, iraq, yemen
3 categories causes of terrorism
Situational, strategic, psychological
Situational causes of terrorism
Preconditions; background conditions
precipitants: trigger events
