Defining Terrorism: Is One Man's Terrorist another Man's Freedom Fighter?

By B. Ganor. 2002

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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1. Michele J. Gelfand
2. Arie W. Kruglanski
3. Max Abrahms
4. John T. Jost

Citations in the corpus

• The Psychology of Radicalization and Deradicalization: How Significance Quest Impacts Violent Extremism (2014, background): “The allowability premise draws on the argument that at times of war, killing enemy combatants is legitimate, and the distinction between combatants and civilians is unsustainable because civilians are potential combatants (they could be recruited or conscripted, thus becoming combatants in effect); ”
• The Political Effectiveness of Terrorism Revisited (2012, background): “…By most definitions, the former are directed mainly against civilian targets, whereas the latter are directed mainly against military targets (Abrahms, 2006b, p. 55; Ganor, 2002, p. 296; Moghadam, 2006, p. 710; Nolan, 2002, p. 669; Schmid & Jongman, 2005, p. 14; Wilkinson, 1986, p. x).”