{"id":10470,"date":"2016-08-15T11:55:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T11:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/global-issues\/?page_id=10470"},"modified":"2016-08-15T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T11:55:11","slug":"terrorism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/global-issues\/modules-10-12\/module-twelve-rising-to-meet-a-world-of-global-challenges\/terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<p>Terrorism is a global issue that attracts a large amount of media coverage.  The unpredictability of terrorist attacks provokes great fear for many people, a fear that is sometimes disproportionate to the actual level of risk.  This in turn, leads to nations expending vast resources to address the threat of terror.  The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001, for example, led to the &#8216;War on Terror&#8217;, on which the US and its allies have spent billions of dollars, arguably with little resulting reduction in the risk of terrorism.\n<\/p>\n<p>The issue of terrorism is complex and multifaceted, but in this module we examine two key questions: first, the motivations that lead to an individual becoming a terrorist, and second, if terrorism is an effective political strategy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nListen to the following audio presentation:  (57:02)\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"weSoundCloud plainlinks\" style=\"width: 500px\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/209473387&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\nRead:\n<\/p>\n<p>Max Abrahms, \u2018The Political Effectiveness of Terrorism Revisited&#8217;, <i>Comparative Political Studies<\/i> 45, 2012, p. 366, Available at:\n<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gwern.net\/docs\/terrorism\/2012-abrahms.pdf\">http:\/\/www.gwern.net\/docs\/terrorism\/2012-abrahms.pdf<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.021 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.023 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 39\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 241\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 962\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 470\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 4\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:170306-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20160815115508 and revision id 979365\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/global-issues\/modules-10-12\/module-twelve-rising-to-meet-a-world-of-global-challenges\/human-trafficking-and-slavery\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/global-issues\/assessment\/assessment\/assessment-outline\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrorism is a global issue that attracts a large amount of media coverage. The unpredictability of terrorist attacks provokes great fear for many people, a fear that is sometimes disproportionate to the actual level of risk. This in turn, leads to nations expending vast resources to address the threat of terror. 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