Risk Terrorism

Concepts of Terrorism
Analysis of the rise, decline, trends and risk

December, 2008
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction........................................................................................................................ 4
PART A. .................................................................................................................................. 5
1. TERRORISM RISE AND FALL: ROOT AND TRIGGER CAUSES AND
CAUSES FOR DECLINE ............................................................................................................ 5
1.1 Scholarly Research Overview....................................................................................................... 6
General Qualitative Analyses of Causes of Terrorism ............................................................ 7
Psychological Research on Causes of Terrorism....................................................................... 9
Empirical Analyses of Causes of Terrorism............................................................................... 10
1.2 Theoretical Framework ................................................................................................................. 11
Approaches to Terrorism Analysis................................................................................................ 13
1.3 List of Root and Trigger Causes of Terrorism ...................................................................... 15
Root Causes.......................................................................................................................................... 15
Trigger Causes..................................................................................................................................... 18
1.4 Most Relevant Root and Trigger Causes................................................................................ 19
1.5 Concluding

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