CONTEMPORARY TERRORISM - THEORETICAL DIMENSION AND EVOLUTION OF THE PHENOMENON (Wspólczesny terroryzm - wymiar teoretyczny i ewolucja zjawiska)

• Authors: Ostant Witold
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the article is to highlight the crucial issues related to the concept of terrorism in political sciences. First, the notion of terrorism is defined. Next a dichotomy between two basic modes of perceiving terrorism is shown that raises the most controversy among scholars since it touches upon such issues as the evolution of terrorism and its causes. Also the evolution of the causes of terrorism is presented with emphasis on the major quantifiers of this phenomenon, and the duration of modern terrorism has been divided into stages dominated by particular ideological trends. Analysis of those trends focuses mainly on similarities and differences between them in order to verify the functioning myths.

Keywords

EN

EVOLUTION OF TERRORISM; IDEOLOGY; MODERN TERRORISM; TERRORISM

Discipline

• POLITICAL_SCIENCES: POLITICAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Instytut Zachodni. Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego w Poznaniu
• Journal: Przegląd Zachodni
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 4(337)
• Pages: 65-87
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ostant Witold

• Witold Ostant, Instytut Zachodni, Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy, 61-854 Poznan, ul. Mostowa 27, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA094017