POL208Y1 Lecture 14: Lecture 14 - Terrorism
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In the late 1800"s , early 1900 states embraced the term terrorism; they called their own actions terrorism. It must be an act of physical violence; differentiates from strikes, protests and other types of non- violent actions: to be considered terrorism the act must have a political goal, or motivation; differentiates from. Innocent victims: i. e. al kaeda would not be committing an act of terror if they bomb someone in. Bolivia who didn"t support them enough, this is a peripheral act and does not constitute an act of terror: the audience: the intended results of terrorist acts cause a psychological effect (terror). They are aimed at a target audience other than the actual victims of the act. The intended target audience of the terrorist act may be the population as a whole, some specific portion of a society (an ethnic minority, for example), or decision-making elites in the society"s political, social, or military populace.