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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Domestic Terrorism"”.
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Causes of domestic terrorism: 1970-2010
… the structural determinants of transnational and domestic terrorism are not necessarily synonymous. A domestic terrorism event population was derived by applying definitional criteria to the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database. Economic, political, systemic, and social structural …
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Hate Begets Hate; Violence Begets Violence: The Case of Domestic Terrorism on Behalf of Ethnic Groups
… thesis focuses on the main factors leading to terrorism, the connections between terrorism and civil wars and how terrorism and civil war can affect each other. For the theoretical clarity, I decided to deal only with ethnically motivated domestic terrorism since I argue that ethnic component …
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Comparing the narrative with facts: examining the impact of the presidency on right-wing domestic terrorism in the United States
Several studies have examined the activity of right-wing extremists in relation to the actions of President Trump (Chyzh, Nieman, & Webb, 2019; Piazza, 2020). Comparatively, little research has examined the impact of the Obama presidency on right-wing extremism despite a peak in the number of …
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Political Violence and Unemployment: Socio-Economic Strain as a Potential Source of Terrorism
… Robert Agnew's (2010) General Strain Theory of Terrorism lays out a foundational model to explain what might cause terrorism. In contrast to previous strain theories, General Strain Theory of Terrorism argues that the strains most likely to result in terrorism are collective strains which are …
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South Africa's response to terror : the case of PAGAD
… and the procedures and methods used to combat domestic terrorism in constitutional democracies as well as the problems encountered by democratic South Africa in responding to PAGAD bearing in mind the legal-constitutional and the political constraints that this democracy faces. Using PAGAD as a …
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Bodies at war : National Security in American controversies over animal & human experimentation from WWI to the War on Terror
… mobilize national security concerns to tar their domestic political adversaries as enemy agents of foreign enemies from the Kaiser and Hitler to Stalin and Al-Qaeda. Further, this study explores how these efforts have intersected with issues of gender, slavery, and the pathologizing of political …
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Gender Inequality and Terrorism: An Analysis of the Effects of Socioeconomic Gender Inequality on Terrorism
<p>Studies of terrorism have explored a number of factors thought to drive the phenomenon. Authors often tie socioeconomic development to reducing terrorism. Among structural explanations of terrorism, however, authors generally neglect the effect of gender inequality, though studies show that …
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Impact of Homeland Security Communities of learning : developing a strategy for training and collaboration
As the threat of domestic terrorism increases and the demands on Emergency Responders and the public intensify, a more distributed, efficient, and flexible training and collaboration model is needed to guide future efforts. The current blended learning strategy unintentionally limits collaboration. …
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“The Disintegration of the System”: The Nazi-Fascist Terrorism of Franco G. Freda Between Fascist Mysticism and Meta-politics During the Strategy of Tension (1969-1979)
… activist Franco G. Freda and neofascist terrorism in Italy between 1960s and 1980s. Franco G. Freda is known as one of the alleged perpetrators of the neo-fascist terrorist attack on the Banco Nazionale dell’Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana in Milan on 12 December 1969. The attack …
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Chemical Terrorism: The Threat of Al-Qaeda and Al-Qaeda Inspired Individuals
… States, and Al-Qaeda and Al-Qaeda inspired terrorism threatens not only our lives, but our way of life as this fanatical group wishes to impose its will and its way. The availability and relative simplicity of chemical weapons combined with Al-Qaeda's resources and intent is a dangerous …
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No Girls Allowed: How incels.is Operates as a Gendered Discursive Space
Incel is a short term used to reference involuntary celibates, a group once created to afford lonely people a place to exist without judgement, but now, co-opted into an ideologically motivated extremist community, existing under a misogynistic belief system (Ging 2019; Kelly and Aunspach 2020). …