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Explaining Terrorism
Explaining Religious Terrorism Part 2:
Politics, Religion, and the Suspension of the Ethical
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| August 23, 2004 |
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| In recent years, a tendency towards increasing violence manifested itself across terrorism generally, with twice as many fatalities caused by terrorist attacks between 1980 and 1986 than had been the case in the preceding seven-year period. Religious terrorism proved especially prone to these higher levels of violence. By 1993, this was particularly evident from the record of Shia Islamic terrorist groups. |
Author(s):
Mark Burgess
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Explaining Religious Terrorism Part 1:
The Axis of Good and Evil
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| May 20, 2004 |
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| Since long before the attacks of Sept 11, 2001 fanaticism such as drives many religious extremists was increasingly recognized as modern terrorism’s most noteworthy motivating factor. That modern day practitioners of religious terrorism have access to immensely higher levels of technology and destruction than their historical predecessors, gives added urgency to the need to further understand a phenomenon that has risen in prominence in recent years. In the first part of a double article in his Explaining Terrorism series CDI Research Analyst Mark Burgess examines Religious Terrorism. |
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Mark Burgess
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Explaining Religious Terrorism Part 1:
The Axis of Good and Evil
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| May 20, 2004 |
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| Since long before the attacks of Sept 11, 2001 fanaticism such as drives many religious extremists was increasingly recognized as modern terrorism’s most noteworthy motivating factor. That modern day practitioners of religious terrorism have access to immensely higher levels of technology and destruction than their historical predecessors, gives added urgency to the need to further understand a phenomenon that has risen in prominence in recent years. In the first part of a double article in his Explaining
Terrorism series CDI Research Analyst Mark Burgess examines Religious Terrorism. |
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Mark Burgess
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Terrorism: The Problems of Definition
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| August 1, 2003 |
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| Defining terrorism is more like an art than a science. In his article Terrorism: The Problems of Definition, CDI's Mark Burgess examines in more depth the complexities inherent in this difficult but, he argues, necessary exercise. |
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Mark Burgess
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Terrorisme: les problèmes de définition
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| August 1, 2003 |
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| French version of Mark Burgess's "Terrorism: The Problem of Definition." As translated for the Africa Center for Strategic Studies North and West Africa Counter-Terrorism Topical Seminar, Bamako, Mali October 12-17, 2003. |
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Mark Burgess
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The Center for Defense Information's Terrorism Project Launches Explaining Terrorism
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| July 3, 2003 |
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| Despite it modern relevance, terrorism is a phenomenon that is still often widely misunderstood. In an attempt to help rectify many of the half-truths and myths surrounding what is often argued to be one of the greatest threats facing America and the world today, CDI's Terrorism Project presents a new series entitled: Explaining Terrorism. Explaining Terrorism will present a series of papers examining the various aspects of terrorism. |
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Mark Burgess
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A Brief History of Terrorism
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| July 2, 2003 |
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| Terrorism is not new. Indeed, in some respects, that what is today known as terrorism predates by millennia the modern term used to describe it. This is not to say that the act of terrorism has remained static. Rather, as the difficulties involved in defining it reflect, terrorism has evolved considerably over the years, even if retaining some of the same characteristics that have historically typified it. |
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Mark Burgess
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