INR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Constituencies Of Iceland, International Inequality, Comparative Advantage
Document Summary
Conspiratorial violence designed to affect attitudes across multiple audiences. Use small amount of resources to get disproportionate effects. Most terrorists want lots watching; not lots dead. They have a distinct political goal and killing lots of people might actually be counterproductive. Most terrorism doesn"t cause a lot of death. Political terrorism: want to draw attention to cause, examples: 1970s, 80s ira, plo etc, see themselves as legitimate actors. Who will eventually (wish to) become actual leaders: have incentive to control the level of violence. Apocalyptic terrorism: fanatical worldview - see themselves as bearers of the truth - you can join us or you can die, not a distinct set of political goals, not necessarily representing a political constituency beyond the group. They have political goals but with apocalyptic strategies. They see themselves as political guards - us against them. Gross national product (counts only what is produced in the country) Purchasing power parity (relative cost of goods in different countries)
