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Terrorism, Identity andLegitimacyThe Four Waves theory and politicalviolence

Edited by Jean E. Rosenfeld

O Routledgeft % TaylorS. Francis Croup

LONDON AND NEW YORK

Contents

Notes on contributors ixAcknowledgments xii

Introduction: the meaning of political violence 1JEAN E. ROSENFELD

PART I

The Four Waves theory and global terrorism 11

1 Looking for waves of terrorism 13KAREN RASLER AND WILLIAM R. THOMPSON

2 Waves of international terrorism: an explanation of theprocess by which ideas flood the world 30DIPAK K. GUPTA

3 Technological and lone operator terrorism: prospects for aFifth Wave of global terrorism 44JEFFREY D. SIMON

4 David Rapoport and the study of religiously motivatedterrorism 66JEFFREY KAPLAN

PART IITerrorism: a closer view 85

5 Ripples in the waves: fantasies and fashions 87MARC SAGEMAN

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6 The fourth terrorism wave: is there a religious exception? 93MICHAEL BARKUN

7 The Fourth Wave: comparison of Jewish and othermanifestations of religious terrorism 103AMI PEDAHZUR AND ARIE PERLIGER

8 Action, reaction, and overreaction: assessing the impact ofterrorism upon states 112JOHN MUELLER

9 Backlash: reactions against terrorism studies 123LEONARD WEINBERG AND WILLIAM LEE EUBANK

PART IIIIdentity, legitimacy, and political violence 135

10 Before the bombs there were the mobs: Americanexperiences with terror 137DAVID C. RAPOPORT

11 The politics of collective identity: contested Israelinationalisms 168MYRON J. ARONOFF

12 South Africa's paradox of violence and legitimacy 190BARRY M. SCHUTZ

13 Legitimacy, culture of political violence and violence ofculture in Ethiopia 212NEGUSSAY AYELE

14 Contextual issues in the study of domestic violence:a Malawi case study 232RALPH A. YOUNG

15 The myth of "institutional violence" 250IVAN STRENSKI

Select bibliography 255Index 258