David C Rapoport
Biographic Data
| ID | 1028690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Rapoport |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Rapoport |
| SIGNATURE | RAPOPORT D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 192 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Waves of Global Terrorism: From 1880 to the Present
The Capitol Attack and the 5th Terrorism Wave
The January 6 attack was unique in its target and potential consequences. But the methods employed were common in the 5th Wave where far-right demonstrations became common. They began against President Obama and were then encouraged by President Trump. The article examines those demonstrations, the participants, methods, and the difficulties government forces have had in dealing with them
The Praetorian Army: Insecurity, Venality, and Impotence
This chapter examines implications of the meanings for the predicament and agony of the praetorian army. Praetorianism was the unintended consequence of Augustus’s effort to replace the Roman Republic’s numerous ad hoc levies by a unified, permanent military order. Because the necessary political and administrative requisites of praetorianism did not exist in the Roman Republic military insurrection could culminate in civil wars, but not in a cou…
Turning to Political Violence: The Emergence of Terrorism
Marc Sageman (forensic psychiatrist and PhD in sociology) is a preeminent terrorism scholar and a former Central Intelligence Agency operations officer in Afghanistan (1987–1989), where he worked with mujahideen fighting the Soviets. Subsequently, public agencies employed him for counterterrorism advice, giving him access to court records and prisoner interviews. His first two books treated Islamic groups, especially al Qaeda; the third addressed…
President Donald J. Trump Symposium
It Is Waves, Not Strains
“The Four Horsemen of Terrorism: It's Not Waves, It's Strains” asks some useful questions, but its critique of the Wave Theory is wholly inadequate and the “Strain Theory” alternative has little ut
Inside Terrorist Organizations
These original essays describe the internal life of terrorist organizations in fascinating detail. They show how no description of terrorist behaviour is adequate without a grasp of the deep tensions that often characterize such groups, and an appreciation of how firmly implanted in our culture terrorist traditions have become, since the middle of the nineteenth century
"Reflections on "Terrorism and the American Experience
Journal Article Reflections on "Terrorism and the American Experience" Get access David C. Rapoport David C. Rapoport David C. Rapoport is professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and founding editor of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 98, Issue 1, June 2011, Pages 115–120, https://d…
Before the Bombs There Were the Mobs: American Experiences with Terror1
Terrorist studies rarely discuss activities before the invention of dynamite, which made modern terror possible. One important, interesting, and forgotten form is the mob terror campaign. Two significant successful American examples are examined and compared, “The Sons of Liberty” which ignited the American Revolution, and the Ku Klux Klan, which “won the peace” the South wanted after it lost the Civil War. The study concludes by briefly comparin…
Torture: A Collection
Torture: A Collection. Edited by Sanford Levinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 328p. $29.95. Seventeen short essays, together with a very detailed Israeli Supreme Court judgment (1999), provide useful discussions of a timely and important subject. Considerable disagreement occurs, and sometimes participants address each other in strong language. Thus, when Ariel Dorfman pleads for “humanity to say no to torture under any circumstance…
Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the World
Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the World
Foreword by David C. Rapoport Introduction by Jeffrey Kaplan
The Fourth Wave: September 11 in the History of Terrorism
The September 11 attack has created a resolve in America and elsewhere to end terror everywhere. But the history of terror does not inspire much confidence that this determination will be successful
Elections and violence
No subject attracts political scientists more than elections do. Still, the intimate link with violence has scarcely been noticed. A sparse recent literature exists on how ballots may eliminate bullets in civil war settlements: questions concerning why ballots create occasions for bullets and the relationship between violence‐producing and violence‐reducing propensities of elections are ignored. This article aims to help fill the gap. It treats e…
Conclusions
Tenth anniversary editorial: An assessment
To claim or not to claim; that is the question - Always
(1997). To claim or not to claim; that is the question — Always! Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 11-17
The importance of space in violent ethno‐religious strife
The political and moral dimensions of space are rarely understood to be crucial political ingredients. This essay challenges that assumption by examining ethno‐religious conflicts since the 1880s. It argues that the massive spatial configurations occasioned by the collapse of great empires created a powerful impuetus for a steady expansion of the number of ethno‐religious conflicts. Space decisively shaped features of the struggles, namely length…
Series foreword
Some general observations on religion and violence
(1991). Some general observations on religion and violence. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 3, Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World, pp. 118-140
Messianic Sanctions for Terror
A most striking development in recent years has been the use of theological concepts to justify terrorist activity, a phenomenon which I have called holy terror.' most notorious instance has occurred among the Shia, where the attempt to revive jihad (holy war) doctrines has produced some remarkable incidents in Lebanon and elsewhere. A major feature of the Shia episodes has been a striking willingness, even eagerness, to die, a disposition sustai…
The international world as some terrorists have seen it: A look at a century of memoirs
Fear and Trembling: Terrorism in Three Religious Traditions
As the first comparative study of religious terror groups, the article provides detailed analyses of the different doctrines and methods of the three best-known groups: the Thugs, Assassins, and Zealots-Sicarii. Despite a primitive technology, each developed much more durable and destructive organizations than has any modern secular group.The differences among the groups reflect the distinguishing characteristics of their respective originating r…
The Morality of Terrorism: Religious and Secular Justifications
Moses, Charisma, and Covenant
Fear and Trembling: Terrorism in Three Religious Traditions
As the first comparative study of religious terror groups, the article provides detailed analyses of the different doctrines and methods of the three best-known groups: the Thugs, Assassins, and Zealots-Sicarii. Despite a primitive technology, each developed much more durable and destructive organizations than has any modern secular group.The differences among the groups reflect the distinguishing characteristics of their respective originating r…
Messianic Sanctions for Terror
A most striking development in recent years has been the use of theological concepts to justify terrorist activity, a phenomenon which I have called holy terror.' most notorious instance has occurred among the Shia, where the attempt to revive jihad (holy war) doctrines has produced some remarkable incidents in Lebanon and elsewhere. A major feature of the Shia episodes has been a striking willingness, even eagerness, to die, a disposition sustai…
Elections and violence
No subject attracts political scientists more than elections do. Still, the intimate link with violence has scarcely been noticed. A sparse recent literature exists on how ballots may eliminate bullets in civil war settlements: questions concerning why ballots create occasions for bullets and the relationship between violence‐producing and violence‐reducing propensities of elections are ignored. This article aims to help fill the gap. It treats e…
Some general observations on religion and violence
(1991). Some general observations on religion and violence. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 3, Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World, pp. 118-140
The importance of space in violent ethno‐religious strife
The political and moral dimensions of space are rarely understood to be crucial political ingredients. This essay challenges that assumption by examining ethno‐religious conflicts since the 1880s. It argues that the massive spatial configurations occasioned by the collapse of great empires created a powerful impuetus for a steady expansion of the number of ethno‐religious conflicts. Space decisively shaped features of the struggles, namely length…
The Capitol Attack and the 5th Terrorism Wave
The January 6 attack was unique in its target and potential consequences. But the methods employed were common in the 5th Wave where far-right demonstrations became common. They began against President Obama and were then encouraged by President Trump. The article examines those demonstrations, the participants, methods, and the difficulties government forces have had in dealing with them
The international world as some terrorists have seen it: A look at a century of memoirs
The Political Dimensions of Military Usurpation
For if men know not their duty, what is there that can force them to obey the laws: An army, you will say. But what shall force the army? Were not the trained bands an army? Were they not the janissaries, that not very long ago slew Osman in his own palace at Constantinople? I am therefore of your opinion both that men may be brought to a love of obedience by preachers and gentlemen that imbibe good principles in their youth ... and also that we …
Military and Civil Societies: The Contemporary Significance of a Traditional Subject in Political Theory
"Reflections on "Terrorism and the American Experience
Journal Article Reflections on "Terrorism and the American Experience" Get access David C. Rapoport David C. Rapoport David C. Rapoport is professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and founding editor of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 98, Issue 1, June 2011, Pages 115–120, https://d…
Foreword by David C. Rapoport Introduction by Jeffrey Kaplan
To claim or not to claim; that is the question - Always
(1997). To claim or not to claim; that is the question — Always! Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 11-17
Before the Bombs There Were the Mobs: American Experiences with Terror1
Terrorist studies rarely discuss activities before the invention of dynamite, which made modern terror possible. One important, interesting, and forgotten form is the mob terror campaign. Two significant successful American examples are examined and compared, “The Sons of Liberty” which ignited the American Revolution, and the Ku Klux Klan, which “won the peace” the South wanted after it lost the Civil War. The study concludes by briefly comparin…
Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the World
Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the World
Men in Uniform: Military Manpower in Modern Industrial Societies, by M. R. D. Foot
Journal Article Men in Uniform: Military Manpower in Modern Industrial Societies, by M. R. D. Foot Get access Men in Uniform: Military Manpower in Modern Industrial Societies. By M. R. D. Foot. New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1961.—x, 161 pp. $3.50. David C. Rapoport David C. Rapoport University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 78, Issue 2, June…
Military and Civil Societies: The Contemporary Significance of a Traditional Subject in Political Theory
The Corrupt State: The Case of Rome Reconsidered
This mighty state remarkable for the smallness of its origin, as well as for the greatness to which it attained, has by the splendour of its national exertions ... or by its internal revolution and reverses of fortune ever been a principal object of interest to all the more enlightened nations of the western world.... To know it well is to know mankind. There is merit in attempting to promote the study of this subject even if the effect should no…
The Political Dimensions of Military Usurpation
For if men know not their duty, what is there that can force them to obey the laws: An army, you will say. But what shall force the army? Were not the trained bands an army? Were they not the janissaries, that not very long ago slew Osman in his own palace at Constantinople? I am therefore of your opinion both that men may be brought to a love of obedience by preachers and gentlemen that imbibe good principles in their youth ... and also that we …
Moses, Charisma, and Covenant
The Morality of Terrorism: Religious and Secular Justifications
Fear and Trembling: Terrorism in Three Religious Traditions
As the first comparative study of religious terror groups, the article provides detailed analyses of the different doctrines and methods of the three best-known groups: the Thugs, Assassins, and Zealots-Sicarii. Despite a primitive technology, each developed much more durable and destructive organizations than has any modern secular group.The differences among the groups reflect the distinguishing characteristics of their respective originating r…
The international world as some terrorists have seen it: A look at a century of memoirs
Messianic Sanctions for Terror
A most striking development in recent years has been the use of theological concepts to justify terrorist activity, a phenomenon which I have called holy terror.' most notorious instance has occurred among the Shia, where the attempt to revive jihad (holy war) doctrines has produced some remarkable incidents in Lebanon and elsewhere. A major feature of the Shia episodes has been a striking willingness, even eagerness, to die, a disposition sustai…
Some general observations on religion and violence
(1991). Some general observations on religion and violence. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 3, Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World, pp. 118-140
Series foreword
The importance of space in violent ethno‐religious strife
The political and moral dimensions of space are rarely understood to be crucial political ingredients. This essay challenges that assumption by examining ethno‐religious conflicts since the 1880s. It argues that the massive spatial configurations occasioned by the collapse of great empires created a powerful impuetus for a steady expansion of the number of ethno‐religious conflicts. Space decisively shaped features of the struggles, namely length…
To claim or not to claim; that is the question - Always
(1997). To claim or not to claim; that is the question — Always! Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 11-17
Tenth anniversary editorial: An assessment
Elections and violence
No subject attracts political scientists more than elections do. Still, the intimate link with violence has scarcely been noticed. A sparse recent literature exists on how ballots may eliminate bullets in civil war settlements: questions concerning why ballots create occasions for bullets and the relationship between violence‐producing and violence‐reducing propensities of elections are ignored. This article aims to help fill the gap. It treats e…
Conclusions
The Fourth Wave: September 11 in the History of Terrorism
The September 11 attack has created a resolve in America and elsewhere to end terror everywhere. But the history of terror does not inspire much confidence that this determination will be successful
Foreword by David C. Rapoport Introduction by Jeffrey Kaplan
Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the World
Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the World
Torture: A Collection
Torture: A Collection. Edited by Sanford Levinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 328p. $29.95. Seventeen short essays, together with a very detailed Israeli Supreme Court judgment (1999), provide useful discussions of a timely and important subject. Considerable disagreement occurs, and sometimes participants address each other in strong language. Thus, when Ariel Dorfman pleads for “humanity to say no to torture under any circumstance…
Before the Bombs There Were the Mobs: American Experiences with Terror1
Terrorist studies rarely discuss activities before the invention of dynamite, which made modern terror possible. One important, interesting, and forgotten form is the mob terror campaign. Two significant successful American examples are examined and compared, “The Sons of Liberty” which ignited the American Revolution, and the Ku Klux Klan, which “won the peace” the South wanted after it lost the Civil War. The study concludes by briefly comparin…
"Reflections on "Terrorism and the American Experience
Journal Article Reflections on "Terrorism and the American Experience" Get access David C. Rapoport David C. Rapoport David C. Rapoport is professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and founding editor of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 98, Issue 1, June 2011, Pages 115–120, https://d…
Inside Terrorist Organizations
These original essays describe the internal life of terrorist organizations in fascinating detail. They show how no description of terrorist behaviour is adequate without a grasp of the deep tensions that often characterize such groups, and an appreciation of how firmly implanted in our culture terrorist traditions have become, since the middle of the nineteenth century
It Is Waves, Not Strains
“The Four Horsemen of Terrorism: It's Not Waves, It's Strains” asks some useful questions, but its critique of the Wave Theory is wholly inadequate and the “Strain Theory” alternative has little ut
President Donald J. Trump Symposium
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