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International Terrorism and World Politics

International Terrorism and Global Politics

International Terrorism and Global Politics

Introduction

In the 21st century , it would seem that the term terrorist ' has become an all encompassing of anyone whom civilized people feel is a threat to innocent civilians , domestic tranquility , and the everyday life that most people take for granted . Government officials declare war on terrorism ' and the like . Expanding upon , and deviating from the typical definition of a terrorist , Charles W Kegley 's 2002 edition , The New Global Terrorism : Characteristics Causes , Controls , contains a chapter entitled Is There

a Good Terrorist , which asserts that one nation 's terrorist may fairly be considered another nation 's patriot . This will maintain the argument that no terrorist is a good terrorist , in contrast to the presentation of Kegley in his volume

Defining Terrorism

To begin , a valid argument can be made against so-called good terrorists by establishing a baseline definition of terrorism . In some of his other writings , Kegley has maintained that one of the problems in condemning terrorists is that the act of terrorism itself is so hard to define in other words , as was mentioned previously , a terrorist may not be considered a terrorist by everyone , because ultimately , some group of people or nation is supposedly benefitting from the terror inflicted on another group . However , by fine tuning the definition of a terrorist it will be possible to reinforce and build upon the argument of this - that there is no such thing as a good terrorist...

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