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	NCJ Number:	NCJ 030518
	Title:	INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM - A NEW MODE OF CONFLICT
	Author(s):	B JENKINS
	Date Published:	1975
	Page Count:	58
	Annotation:	THIS PAPER, ORIGINALLY PRESENTED AT THE FIFTH COURSE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF DISARMAMENT AND RESEARCH ON CONFLICTS IN 1974, DETAILS THE PHILOSOPHY, EFFECTS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM.
	Abstract:	A DEFINITION OF TERRORISM AND A REVIEW OF THE THEORY OF TERRORISM ARE FIRST PROVIDED. IT IS STATED THAT THE OBJECTIVES OF TERRORISM ARE NOT THOSE OF CONVENTIONAL COMBAT, BUT ARE INSTEAD TO GAIN SPECIFIC CONCESSIONS, TO GAIN PUBLICITY, TO CAUSE WIDESPREAD DISORDER, TO PROVOKE REPRESSION, OR TO PUNISH CERTAIN GROUPS OR INDIVIDUALS, IT IS STRESSED THAT THE ACTUAL AMOUNT OF VIOLENCE CARRIED OUT BY TERRORISTS HAS BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED. ALTHOUGH TERRORISTS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ATTRACT ATTENTION TO THEMSELVES AND DURING SOME CONCESSIONS FROM VULNERABLE GOVERNMENTS, THE AUTHOR CONTENDS THAT TERRORISM HAS NOT YET HAD A MAJOR IMPACT ON THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER. ALSO DISCUSSED ARE THE NEW TARGETS AND NEW CAPABILITIES OF TERRORISTS, THE USE OF TERRORISM BY SOME NATIONS AS A MEANS OF WAGING SURROGATE WARFARE AGAINST OTHER NATIONS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF TERRORISM. A CHRONOLOGY OF RECENT INCIDENTS OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM IS APPENDED. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED)
	Index Term(s):	Revolutionary or terrorist groups ; International cooperation ; Future trends ; Chronologies ; Terrorist tactics ; International terrorism ; Terrorism causes ; Terrorist ideologies
	Sale Source:	California Seminar on Arms Control and Foreign Policy P.O. Box 925 Santa Monica, CA 90406 United States of America
	Type:	Historical Overview
	Country:	United States of America
	Language:	English
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