PS 0500 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bush Doctrine, Neoconservatism, Humanitarian Intervention
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Groups or individuals that employ terrorism may renounce such tactics and be accepted in the realm of normal politics. Sinn fein (northern ireland: ira undertook terrorist attacks against uk to fight for the. Now, there is greater death and destruction- use of technology and weapons of mass destruction. Globalization makes it harder to locate terrorist groups: internet, cell phones, communication technology. Increases the size of the audience : media operates on 24 hour news cycle. Group level: not all violent groups use terrorism, more likely if group is weak in conventional terms. Conventional metrics of military power: training, weapons, Individual level: number of fighters, etc: what drives individual to be a suicide bomber or join a terrorist group, article: libya: supplying large number of suicide bombers to civil war in iraq, economic deprivation. Preaching radical branch of islam: pride, sense of identity. Groups feel oppressed because of their ethnicity.
