International Terrorism Essay

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Since the events of 11th September 2001, the world was plunged into a global fight against Terrorism. Terrorism to the general public, is a n act of baseless evil, aimed at just killing and wounding the population. But according to Enders and Sandler, (2012), terrorism can be defined as a premeditated action, which uses violence or the threat of violence by individuals or subnational groups for political or social objective through the intimidation of a large audience beyond that of its immediate victims (Enders W, Sandler T, 2012). For an attack to be acknowledged as being an act of terrorism, it has to be political in nature, and include violence in tremendous quantities. However, states in their efforts to protect their best interest, …show more content…

The purpose of this paper, is to evaluate the workings of terrorism, and to discern the effectiveness of international terrorism. the effectiveness, being based on how successful its aims are. As mentioned previously, an attack is deemed to be an act of terrorism if it is carried out with a purpose of satisfying a political ideology. It will be looking at different acts of terrorism and the reaction which they were able to withdraw from both the public and the …show more content…

And they both have different outcomes and coercion rates. Terrorist campaign, however brutal and violent it gets, has little or no coercion power as opposed to guerilla campaign. According to the table below, gotten from Abrahms essay on a similar topic, shows the difference between the coercion power of Guerilla campaign Terrorist campaign. While Terrorist campaigns are never partially successful in coercing the government, it is completely successful mostly for the safety of its citizens while Guerilla campaign gets partial success in coercing the government to the wills of the

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