Is the Past Prologue? Terrorists and WMD

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ID12693192
AuthorsMichael Stohl (0000-0003-0187-3287, University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume7
Issue1
Pages146-148
Publication date2005-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-2486 • E-ISSN: 1521-9488
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1521-9488.2005.479_5.x
OpenAlexW2019476652
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited5

In the years immediately before and certainly after September 11, many scholarly and policy analyses have focused on the causes and consequences of the “new terrorism.” These analyses have suggested that the new terrorism is caused by the emergence of “religious” and “millearian” terrorists in contrast to the “political” terrorists who dominated the “old terrorism” (see, for example, Lesser et al. 1999; Morgan 2004) and that the consequence is greater lethality. Many have argued that these new terrorists, unlike the old, are increasingly “stateless,” thus removing restraints imposed by their territorially defined supporters. Much of the debate centers on conflicting evaluations of the continuing relevance of Brian Jenkins's (1975:15) observation that “terrorists want a lot of people watching, not a lot of people dead.” Compounding the problem, some suggest that there has been a desensitization of the audience such that greater lethality is required to obtain not only coverage, but the fear, and thus impact, that these new terrorists are seeking (see, for example, Center for Counterproliferation Research 2002:6).3

Computer security · Covert · Criminology · Lethality · Political science · Politics · Prologue · Relevance (law · Sociology · Stateless protocol · Terrorism · History · Law · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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