An analytical history of terrorism, 1945–2000

William Shughart

Public Choice, 2006, vol. 128, issue 1, 7-39

Abstract: This paper traces the history of modern terrorism from the end of the Second World War to the beginning of the twenty-first century. It divides that history into three stylized waves: terrorism in the service of national liberation and ethnic separatism, left-wing terrorism, and Islamist terrorism. Adopting a constitutional political economy perspective, the paper argues that terrorism is rooted in the artificial nation-states created during the interwar period and suggests solutions grounded in liberal federalist constitutions and, perhaps, new political maps for the Middle East, Central Asia and other contemporary terrorist homelands. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006

Keywords: Terrorism; National liberation; Ethnic separatism; Left-wing terrorism; Islamist terrorism; Rational choice; Constitutional political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/s11127-006-9043-y

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