Homegrown Terrorism in the West

Bibliographic Data

ID4086966
AuthorsManni Crone (0000-0002-7480-1551, Danish Institute for International Studies, corresponding author), Martin Harrow (Danish Institute for International Studies)
Year2011
Volume23
Issue4
Pages521-536
Publication date2011-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTerrorism and Political Violence (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0954-6553 • E-ISSN: 1556-1836
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09546553.2011.571556
OpenAlexW1966778945
LanguageEN
Citations received23

The London bombings in 2005 led to the perception that the terrorist threat had changed from external to internal. This became conceptualized shortly after as “homegrown terrorism.” This article deals with the meaning and scope of this phenomenon. We begin by tracing an ambiguity in the term “homegrown,” which is both about belonging in the West and autonomy from terrorist groups abroad. A quantitative study of Islamist terrorism in the West since 1989 reveals an increase in both internal and autonomous terrorism since 2003 and that most plots are now internal—but not autonomous. Finally we suggest that an increase in autonomous terrorism is a transitory phenomenon

Ambiguity · Autonomy · Epistemology · Internal conflict · Phenomenon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Terrorism · Law · Philosophy · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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