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Terrorism
Exam 1- Gus Martin: Essentials of Terrorism (Ch. 1-3)
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Criminal Justice
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02/24/2013

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Extremism
Definition
radical political opinions
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Extremism Formula
Definition
Content of Belief + Style of Expression
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4 Characteristics of Extremists
Definition
ImbNC:
intolerant
moral absolutes
broad conclusions
new language
conspiratorial beliefs
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intolerant
Definition
with it or against it
Term
moral absolutes
Definition
believing in your morals and all others are wrong (Good/ Evil)
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broad conclusions
Definition
all opposition is wrong, no debate
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new language and conspiratorial beliefs
Definition
may create new terms and beliefs used to label and demonize the enemy
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terrorism
Definition
politically, religiously, economically motivated violence usually against soft targets with an intention to affect a target audience.
TERRORISM IS NOT GUERRILLA WARFARE
criminal/illegitimate use of force.
Term
why is it sometimes hard to identify terrorists incidents?
Definition
the actors could be freedom fighters, or terrorists.
There are many forms of terrorism
question:
does it have a motive?
who was it directed towards? (combatants/ non combatants)
there must be a criminal/illegitimate use of force
are they a known terrorist group?
Term
what is the difference between terrorists and extremists?
Definition
the terrorist act. actually committing the act.
Term
what are the common features of definitions?
Definition
the use of illegal force
political motives
subnational actors
unconventional methods
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state terrorism
Definition
committed by governments against foreign or domestic enemies.
Term
dissident terrorism
Definition
dissident terrrorism is committed by non state actors against the government, ethnonationalist groups, religious groups and other enemies.
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international terrorism
Definition
world stage, targets of international interest, domestic or foreign
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religious terrorism
Definition
for greater glory of faith. 1 true faith belief. other worldy source sanctions or commands violence.
Term
why is it important we be able to define terrorism>
Definition
the u.s. needs to be able to define what is a terrorist incidenta in order to make policy to combat it.
Term
distinguish terrorism from guerilla warfare.
Definition
terrorism is individual occurrencies against non-combatants in a non-militarristic setting.
Term
guerilla warfare
Definition
a numerically larger group of amred individuals who operate as a military unit, attack enemy military forces and seize and hold territory while also exercising some form of sovereignty or control over a defined geographical area and its population
Term
"One person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter"
Definition
depending on the victim or actor, one may see the act as necessary for the greater good of teh cause, or as a henious act of violence.
Term
"one man willing to throw away his life is enough to terrorize a thousand"
Definition
the slfless act of lethal force in combination with timing, precision, and purpose is an invaluable weapon of war.
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"extremism in defense of liberty is novice"
Definition
represents the belief in absolute righteousness of a cause. clearly defines good/evil
Term
"it became necessary to destroy the town to save it"
Definition
said by an american soldier in vietnam. to burn the city would free it from a communist strong hold.
Term
indiscriminate force
Definition
applied against a target without limit of force or degree of destruction of the target
Term
discriminate force
Definition
limited use of force
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total war
Definition
force is indiscriminately applied to military targets of an enemy combatant to destroy them
Term
unrestricted terrorism
Definition
indiscriminate force is applied against noncombatants without restraint by either a government or dissidents
Term
limited war
Definition
discriminating force is used against a combatant, either to defeat the enemy or to achieve a more limited political goal.
Term
state repression/ restricted terrorism
Definition
discriminating force is directed against noncombatants either as a matter of domestic policy or as the selective use.
Term
combatant
Definition
anyone carrying weapons enganged in arm conflict
Term
non combatant
Definition
people with no military ties, aren't baring weapons
Term
collateral damage:
Definition
unintended destruction and casualties
Term
history of terrorism by era, including any specific terms:
Definition
roman age
french revolution
modern terrorism
Term
antiquity
Definition
state terrorism to suppress threatening ideas
Term
contingent sovereignty
Definition
sovereignty without execution
Term
regicide
Definition
killing of a king
Term
tyranicide
Definition
killing of tyrants for the greater good
Term
roman age of terrorism
which form of terrorism was popular?
Definition
state terrorism
Term
which form of war is practiced
Definition
total war
Term
total war
Definition
burning cities to ensure obedience
Term
sicarii
Definition
carried daggers, hence the group's name
Term
which group were the sicarii a part of
Definition
the zealots
Term
which form of warfare did the zealots use?
Definition
guerrilla warfare
Term
regime de la terreur: means what
Definition
reign of terror
Term
who formed the reign of terror?
Definition
edmund burke
Term
edmund burke killed people with what device?
Definition
the guillotine
Term
edmund burke performed which form of terrorism?
Definition
state terrorism
Term
what year did the french revolution start?
Definition
1789
Term
who were the radical jacobins?
Definition
far left group, take over revolution
Term
what did robes pierre do to assure a political win?
Definition
killed all political opponents and those who could be opponenets
Term
what were the revolutionary tribunals?
Definition
court proceedings to condemn and execute these "enemies of the revolution"
Term
what is an example of the revolutionary tribunal of today?
Definition
the struggle meetings of revolutionary china
Term
modern terrorism era'
what defines new terrorism?
Definition
destruction of society and eliminating large sections of the population
Term
how is the environment characterized?
Definition
a horizontal organizational arrangement
Term
how is the command structure of new terrorism and what is it motivated by?
Definition
no command structure, motivated by religious or nationalist precepts
Term
What does the far left side of the spectrum represent?
Definition
promotes class or ethno national rights
Term
describe the far left philosophy, give an example of the group practicing this today
Definition
usually marxist or ethnonationalist
violence less, politics more
usually non-violent protests
usually engaged in the political process.
communists
Term
specific ideologies of far left
Definition
anarchism
facism
Term
describe fringe right
Definition
motivated by ethnonational or religious superiority
Term
what is terrorism used for in fringe right?
Definition
a safeguard for purity or superiority of group
Term
how do the people who practice fringe right see themselves?
Definition
they see themselves as champions of an ideal order which is under attack by inferior groups
Term
what are the people of the fringe right concerned with
Definition
asserting their value system and destroying the existing order
Term
what are they more likely than fringe left to do
Definition
use indiscriminate force and take more casualties
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Describe Far right
Definition
strong adherence to social order and traditional values
Term
what are some of the traditional values of far right?
Definition
gender/race. very conservative. non violent
participates in political process
may protest
Term
what is facism?
Definition
extreme nationalistic champion surperiority of ethnic or nation
Term
what is facism's ideology?
Definition
rightest ideological counterpart to marxism and anarchism
Term
how did facism come to form?
Definition
grew out of reaction to widespread communist agitation in europe in early 1900s- bolshevik revolution
Term
what does facism require?
Definition
coltural conservatism
Term
what is facism against?
Definition
communism, monarchy, democracy, intellectual
Term
what does facism advocate?
Definition
extreme obedience to law, order, and the state.
Term
what does facism value?
Definition
military duty, christian church, motherhood
Term
what does facism seek?
Definition
a new order
Term
who are some examples of facist rule?
Definition
hitler, mussolini
Term
the spanish falange model for facism
promoted?
Definition
the vision of reoccupying latin america and the phillipines
Term
spanish falange championed..
Definition
values of nationalism, the catholic churce
Term
who was accepted as caudillo during the spanish falange and what does caudillo mean?
Definition
franciso franco- leader of rebellion
Term
what was the slogan franciso franco promoted during the falange?
Definition
" long live death! "
Term
marxism- what was its ideology?
Definition
radical socialism, leftist ideology
Term
what does marxism champion?
Definition
emerging industrial working class and argued the wealth produced by these workers should be more equitably distributed rather tahn concentrated by the wealth.
Term
who was the founder of marxism?
Definition
karl marx
Term
how did marx believe each era was defined?
Definition
the working classs enequal relationship to the means of production
Term
what did marx theorize?
Definition
the working class would establish the dictatoriship of the proletariat in the communist society and build a just and eqalitarian social order
Term
what does the manifesto of the communist party explain?
Definition
the revolutionary environment of the industrial era and how this era was an immediate precursor to the communist era
Term
what was the industrial age class pyramid? name of the order of classes from top to bottom
Definition
described the socioeconomic class of the industrial age. they were ruling class, bourgeoisie, proletariat, lumpen proletariat
Term
what is anarchism? what is its philosophy?
Definition
left philosophy, opposed to central government control.
Term
who proclaimed "property is theft"?
Definition
pierre joseph proud hon
Term
what was the desire of anarchists?
Definition
destroy the state and radically decentralize power.
Term
explain propaganda by the deed
Definition
achieving propaganda victories by violently pursuing the revolution
Term
how were the anarchists structured as a whole?
Definition
small cell-based groups
Term
who did the anarchists assassinate?
Definition
president mckinley
Term
what does anarchism support?
Definition
destruction of the state, radical decentralization of power, atheism, and individualism
Term
what does anarchism oppose
Definition
capitalism
Term
what was the just war doctrine?
Definition
an ideal and a moralistic philosophy
Term
how does the just war doctrine justify acts of extreme violence?
Definition
religious and ideological extremists
Term
what was the significance of the just war doctrine?
Definition
it clarifies who can be defined as an enemy and what kinds of targets it is morally acceptable to attack.
Term
name the 2 concepts of war
Definition
rationale for war and the method of warfare.
Term
what does jus ad bellum mean and what did it regulate
Definition
justice of war: having the correct conditions for waging war in the first place
Term
what does jus in bello mean and what does it regulate
Definition
justice in war: correct behavior while waging war
Term
what were the hague conventions?
Definition
produce 21 international agreements on the rules of war
Term
who were the luddites?
Definition
groups for rights of lower class. english workers of early 1800s.
hated technology
Term
what did the luddites protest?
Definition
industrialization
Term
who was the founder of the luddites?
Definition
nedd ludd
Term
what did the luddites start destroying in protest?
Definition
the machines
Term
how did england fight back against luddites? what was the result?
Definition
created an anti-luddite law, punishable by death. killed most, the rest stopped.
Term
who represents the luddites today? give example
Definition
nedd luddites; unabomber, theodore "ted" kaczynski
Term
who were the people's will?
Definition
aka narodnaya volya (anarchists, marxists) students upset with the czarist regime of the 19th century
Term
who did the people's will champion?
Definition
the peasant class--> "land and liberty" Zemla Volya
Term
what was the goal of the people's will?
Definition
mass peasant uprising
Term
who were the black repartition?
Definition
a group of the people's will. they kept to goal of peasant revolution. they became a conspiratorial terrorist oragnization
Term
what were the advantages of becoming a conspiratorial terrorist organization?
Definition
better able to force gov't change
believed they understood the underlying problems of russia better than uneducated mass of people
Term
what strategy did the people's will use?
Definition
vanguard strategy
Term
what is the revolutionary vanguard strategy?
Definition
expose weaknesses of gov't to poor
say gov't is weak.
plant revolutionaries among the peasants
Term
why would the revolutionary vanguard strategy call for installing revolutionaryies among the peasants?
Definition
it educated the peasant class on gov't weaknesses, and lead them to revolution.
Term
who did the people's will assassinate?
Definition
czar alexnader II in 1881
Term
what is an ideology?
Definition
a system of beliefs to explain social and political conditions
Term
explain fringe left
Definition
extreme marxist ideology: class warfare, ethno-national liberation to justify political violence.
Term
what does the fringe left seek, use, and see themselves as?
Definition
they seek economic change
they use violence to get what they want
and they see themselves as champions of downtrodden
Term
what were the fringe left's intentions?
Definition
see itself at war with government
destroy an existing order
(Red army faction)
Term
new terrrorism v old
how is new terrorism characterized?
Definition
loose, cell based networks with minimal lines of command and control.
demands WMDs and high intensity weapons
Term
how is new terrorism politically?
Definition
vague, religion, mystically motivations
Term
what were new terrorism their fighting style?
Definition
assymetrrical to maximize casualties
Term
whos fighitng usually in new terrorism
Definition
non state actors targeting state actors
Term
what is old terrorism?
who is involved?
Definition
clearly identifiable organizations or movements
Term
what kind of weapons are used in old terrorism?
Definition
conventional weapons, usually small arms and explosives
Term
what were their targets of old terrorism??
Definition
explicit grievances, championing specific classes or ethno-national groups
surgical selection of targets
Term
what is a social movement?
Definition
a group of people of similar demographics campaigning to promote change or protect threatened
Term
what is a traumatic.dramatic event?
Definition
experiencing victimization
individual experience, or group experience
more likely in areas of extended conflict
Term
what do sociological theories study? how would they study terrorism>
Definition
sociology theories study human interaction with institutions
they would study terrorism by groups of people or how terrorism can be the result of interactions bn groups in society
Term
who is the key actor in structural theory?
Definition
the government
Term
how does revolution happen?>
Definition
when the population is unhappy and elites are alientated from gov't and thereis a pervasive crisis, like a terrible economy may result in revolution
Term
what is the equation for revolution?
Definition
popular discontent+alienated elites+pervasive crisis= revolution
Term
relative deprivation theory: how does it lead to terrorism?>
Definition
individuals decide to use collective violence when they are feeling deprived and frustrated. group starts to expect more for their status rights and privleges
feel deprivedcompared to others in society
the feeling of unfairness leads them to action
they challenge social order often by using collective violence
Term
absolute deprivation
Definition
deprived of necesseties to survive: food and water
not motivated to engage in counter action because they spend too much time trying to survive
Term
psychological theories are based on?
Definition
individual behavior
Term
rationality of terrorism
Definition
most terrorists are not insane or even crazy.
they are goal oriented using terrorism to accomplish their goal. they seek policy change or exchange of prisoners
Term
individual psychological explanations
Definition
significant events caused them to be anti-social and display anti-social behavior
Term
group level psychological explanation
Definition
caring about group acceptance. leads to violence
Term
generalized explanations of terrorism
Definition
a choice between violent/ less violent alternatives
maintains group cohesion, group solidarity
overcomes individualism
necessary to be esteem of oppressed people
terrorists consider themselves an elite vanguard
found truths that need no explanation
depersonalized symbolic buildings become targets
Term
the process of catching stockholme syndrome. what is the key part of the process?
Definition
a pyshcological shift from captive to sympathizer
becomes obsessive identification with what the captor likes/dislikes

receive treatment they begin to think of as kindness and consideration
sympthizing with captors and I.D. with them
Term
women and terrorism movements, which one they more likely to be involved with?
Definition
more common among left wing and nationalist terrorist movemeents than in right wing and religious movements. gender equally ideologies
Term
political violence and strategic choices. how does this thinking proceed?
Definition
acts of political will: effort to force change : choice rational decision
Karl Marx: collapse of capitalism is inevitable.
vladimir illich unin: capitalism will fall by a disciplined organization. ie. communism

To adopt specific tactics and methodologies to defeat an adversary
all that is required to win is political and strategic will
Term
what is a people's war?
Definition
fight against their rival beliefs
: chinese revolution mao zedong
Term
protracted warfare
Definition
war over time
Term
young muslims and thoughts about america and the west, why are they upset?
Definition
thet are ubpset because of the behavior of america and western nations
Term
what are the instigating events of the americans an western nations?
Definition
the american led occupation of iraq and insurgency which followed
an open ended presence of western troops in or near muslim countries
broadcast images of civilian casualties and other collateral damage during military operations.
images and rumors of mistreating prisoners in detention facilities
cycles of chronic violence between israelis and palestinians and the perception that the U.S. and west unfairly favor israel
Term
ends justify the means
Definition
in the end they will reach a utopia
Term
commonalities in thinking amongst those who use terrorism
Definition
moral convictions simplified definition, utopian world
Term
codes of self sacrifice:
Definition
superior codes of living. those who follow the codes are superior to those who do not.
code cleanses any action of a true believer
Term
what do revolutionaries conclude about their cause
Definition
revolutionaries conclude their cause is honrable their methods are justifiable and their opponenets are representation of implicalbe will
Term
moral convictions
Definition
the terrorists unambiguous certainty of the righteousness of their cause
Term
goals and objectives of their movement are considered what
Definition
principaled beyond reproach and their methods absolutely justifiable
Term
leila khaled and abu nidal
Definition
khaled hijacked a plane, no longer in terrrorism, still alive

nedal- collaborated an attack killings of israeli olympic atheletes. no longer alive.
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