The Study of Terrorism: Definitional Problems,

Abstract

Terrorism has become part of our daily news diet. Hardly a day goes by without news of an assassination, political kidnapping, hijacking, or bombing somewhere in the world. As such incidents of terrorism have increased in the past decade, the phenomenon of terrorism has become one of increasing concern to governments and of increasing interest to scholars.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA103363

Entities

People

  • Brian Michael Jenkins

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter IED
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assassination
  • Behavioral Research
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Civil War
  • Corporations
  • Criminals
  • Governments
  • Homicide
  • New York
  • North America
  • Personnel Management
  • Societies
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • Violence
  • Western Europe

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Economics
  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution
  • Strategic Security Studies