CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport
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Political science 1ab3 2017 lecture 9a international terrorism. A necessary first step before analyzing terrorism is to define it. There is a politics associated with defining terrorism. There are clear parallels between state violence and terrorist violence. Or what to make of the clich : one person"s terrorist is another person"s freedom fighter . Where the same act is considered illegitimate terrorism from one point of view, but a legitimate struggle for freedom from another, any objective categorization becomes questionable. The point is, defining a group or an action as terrorist is an unavoidably political act. There is no obvious definition that would be accepted without vocal opposition from one quarter or another. The academic response to the definitional problem has been to either reject the idea that the term terrorism" can be used objectively, or to divide terrorism into a number of forms:
