Testing for Contagion/Diffusion of Terrorism in State Dyads |
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Authors: | David Martin Jones M. L. R. Smith |
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Affiliation: | 1. University of Queensland , Queensland, Australia;2. King's College , University of London , London, UK |
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Abstract: | This article reviews the new journal Critical Studies on Terrorism. The fashionable approach that this journal adopts towards the contemporary phenomenon of terrorism maintains that a “critical” and “self-reflexive” approach to the study of terrorism reveals a variety of shortcomings in the discipline. These range from a distorting over-identification with the Western democratic state perspective on terrorism to a failure to empathize with the misunderstood, non-Western, “other.” This review examines whether the claims of the critical approach adds anything, other than pedantry and obscurity, to our understanding of the phenomenon. It concludes that it does not. |
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