ADMJ 1245 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Benjamin Barber, Cultural Globalization, Osama Bin Laden

• School: Pitt
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: ADMJ 1245
• Professor: John Fitzgerald

Document Summary

Preconditions: conditions that generate or give legitimacy to a core set of grievances articulated in a terrorist group"s ideology. Benjamin barber argues that some cases of terrorism can be seen as the collision between two forces. An integrative modernization and aggressive economic and cultural globalization vs. tribalism and reactionary fundamentalism. Violence is necessary to preserve the status quo. Shadow economy: economic activity the is underground, covert, or illegal. Vanda felbab-brown 3 sets of gains from the involvement with the shadow economy. Freedom of action (ability to optimize tactics and strategies) Increased political capital (legitimacy, relationship with local population, willingness of locals to withhold intelligence on the terrorist group from the government, willingness to provide information of the government to the terrorist group) Weak and failed states facilitate terrorism, particularly in places where a government"s authority is routinely challenged and undermined by a variety of violent nonstate actors.