POLS429-500 Introduction to Terrorism Post-Cold War Terrorism

William Diller Matthew

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POLS429-500 Introduction to Terrorism Post-Cold War Terrorism

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• Arts

Informations

• Publié par: ycyzadom
• Nombre de lectures: 70
• Langue: English

Extrait

4/8/2011

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POLS429-500

Introduction to Terrorism

Class 34 – 13 April 2011

US Counter-Terrorism and Foreign

Policy

Pillar Chapter 3 Overview

• Structure of terrorism and effect on

response

Post-Cold War Terrorism

•

Decline of terrorist groups of the Cold War with the end of the Soviet

Union

– Red Brigade, Action Direct, Red Army Faction, etc.

– End of some state sponsored terrorism

– IRA decline to an extent

– Although fall of Soviet Union did trigger some terrorism

• Chechnya, Georgia

• Yuboslavia

•

Post-cold war terrorism which followed grouped into four categories

– Remaining leftist groups from Cold War

• FARC, November 17, etc.

– Anti-Israel, Pro-palestinian groups

– Ethnic separatist groups

• PKK, etc.

– Religious fundamentalist

• i.e. Islamic terrorism

– Combinations of above

•

Important factors which influence this terrorism

– Technology and Transportation

– Less formal command/organizational structures