Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists
- 1 March 2004
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Theory
- Vol. 22 (1), 5-13
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9558.2004.00200.x
Abstract
The terms terror, terrorism, and terrorist do not identify causally coherent and distinct social phenomena but strategies that recur across a wide variety of actors and political situations. Social scientists who reify the terms confuse themselves and render a disservice to public discussion. The U.S. government's own catalogs of terrorist events actually support both claimsKeywords
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