Articles on Ideology
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Cell Strategy and Terrorist Groups
Cell Strategy refers to the organizational technique of dividing terrorist organizations into small sub-units that usually interact in a larger network. Cells can be composed of anywhere ... -
Current Regime Nationalists Terrorist Groups
If terrorism has many faces, so does counter terrorism. This seemingly simple statement provides a deep insight into the complex socio political nature of terrorist violence and suggests the range ... -
Deterring Terrorism
After the horrific terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 in Washington and New York, Western governments became almost singularly focused on deterring future attacks. The efforts of these ... -
Diasporas and Terrorism
Historically, the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel beginning with the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time, ... -
Economic Terrorism and Extortion
Economic terrorism is assuming increasing salience given greater capacity of terrorist groups and non state actors across the globe to impose penalties on states as well as their citizens through ... -
Environmental Terrorist Groups
Since 1976, environmental terrorists within the United States have carried out over one thousand criminal acts and caused over one hundred and ten million dollars worth of damage. But the ... -
Evolutionary Process of Political Violence to Terrorism
Photo: MANAMA, 2011 (IPS) - Bahrain, unlike Egypt with its 83 million people, has a population of only just over a million. And so when protesters settled down to sleep at a central ... -
Extremist Right Wing Terrorist Groups
Right-wing conservatism is a political philosophy that resists any change in the existing political, economic, social and religious institutions and beliefs. It aims to protect traditional values ... -
Ideological Sources of Radical Islam - Religious (Islamic)
This essay aims at constructing and deconstructing three main prevalent Islamic discourses—Ialamism, Salafism, and Wahhabism--in this century, which comprise the core beliefs of Muslim communities ... -
Jihadist Terrorist Groups - Religious (Islamic)
Photo: 2011 A screenshot of the IMU video with a picture of "Miqdaad" of Essen, who was allegedly killed. A propaganda video posted online by the terror group Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ... -
Left Wing Terrorist Groups (Anarchist)
Terrorist acts represent a unique form of crime by dint of their political content. Terrorism is thus differentiated from other criminal uses of violence by the political end-state which is used ... -
Left Wing Terrorist Groups (Maoist, Marxist, Communist, Socialist)
Left Wing Extremist (LWE), as witnessed in the third world countries, is basically a movement against capitalism, feudalism, comprador bureaucrat capitalism, inequality, exploitation, ... -
Left Wing Terrorist Groups (Marxist)
With the outburst of decolonization during the late 1950s and 1960s, terrorism and wars of national liberation spread throughout the developing nations threatening the stability of these ... -
Narcoterrorism
The term “narcoterrorism” was coined in the early 1980’s when President Fernando Belaunde Terry of Peru gave a name to the attacks his police forces were facing from drug traffickers. (Hudson, ... -
Policy Making within Transnational Terrorist Organizations
The globalization of terrorism demands an understanding of how terrorist groups make and execute their policy decisions. Contrary to the popular belief propagated by the media, most ... -
Political Responses to Terrorism: Kashmir
Photo: 2010 Karachi, Pakistan. Out of control fire, Pakistani Taliban suspected. ... -
Quranic Understandings of Violent Jihad - Religious Terrorism (Islamic)
Photo: 2010 Taliban use mosque to hide weapons cache. Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers, partnered with U.S. Special Operations Forces, uncovered multiple weapons caches in eastern ... -
Racist Terrorist Groups
It is critical to note that there is a fundamental difference between the mainstream political right, which accepts democratic norms but may have political views that are traditional and even ... -
Radical Islam and Anti Globalization
Within a newly developing globalized world, Islamic movements and at times the Islamic world have taken the place of communism as the rising arch enemy against the currently dominant Western ... -
Religious (all) and Cult Terrorist Groups
Attempting to identify terrorist organizations as religious cults or religious cults as terrorist organizations is a challenging task for several reasons. Both the definition of cult and the ... -
Separatist / New Regime Nationalist / Ethnic Nationalist
Political separatism evolves when a group of people who believe they are being repressed, abused, disenfranchised, or discriminated against, attempt to disassociate themselves from the system that ... -
State Sponsored Terrorism
Terrorism is generally understood as an organized violent act by non-state actors against unarmed civilians to create mass fear in a targeted state. But terrorism is also committed by a sovereign ... -
Terrorism and Governmental Policy
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure ... -
Terrorism and the Lone Wolf
The term “lone wolf” is a relatively new one, but the phenomenon of lone wolf terrorism is one which is growing in both the United States and abroad. A lone wolf, in brief, is an individual ...
