The Four Phases Of Rapoport

Rapoport mainly acknowledged four phases of terrorist actions. They are categorized by waves. According to Rapoport a terrorism expert, the first wave is the Anarchist Terror of the last 1880s until the 1920s. The Second wave was the anti-colonial wave, which emerged in the late 1920s and lasted until the 1960s. The third wave, known as the New Left Wave, which the Vietnam War triggered, they considered themselves as the suppressed masses in the Third World. And finally the fourth wave which was marked at 1979 still present. This wave of terrorist is tied up to a solid religious agenda which differentiate itself from another period of terrorist exploit. Nonetheless, religion was likewise a significant factor in other period, too. But today,