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CAUSES OF TERRORISM (critically thinking
about causation (evidence?
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CAUSES OF TERRORISM
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MICRO
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personal experience (childhood, trauma)
MACRO
(structural factors, political socio-eco)
Poverty: socio-eco factors of inequality, deprivation, uneven economic development, lack of welfare
Politics: democratization (more freedom allows more terrorist action) discrimination, repression, weak states, sponsorship of terrorism
Religion: ideology mobilization, used to justify and recruit, make a world Caliphate, fight unbelievers
Rational Choice
CRENSHAW. terrorism is a means to an end: gaining recognition, discrediting a government, influencing public opinion
rational choice made on a cost/benefit calculation, whereby terrorism appears to be the most beneficial and least costly way to put forward intention
PAPE. example: suicide terrorism is a rational strategy used by terrorist groups to get their ends (get more media coverage = more communication to audience, sensationalist
MESO
intra group dynamics, organizational structure
individual/group's interpretation of root causes, perception of injustice and inequality
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