Essay 2

What are some of the major explanations for the rise of suicide terrorism? Which one do you find more convincing and why?

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  3. Also, there’s demonstrative terrorism (to prove a point) and destructive terrorism (to kill as many people as possible, including the terrorist themselves)

  4. a. The main point of suicide terrorism is to inflict enough pain on the opposing society to overwhelm their interest in resisting the terrorists demands and thereby causing either the people to revolt against the government or cause the government to concede
    b. No escape plans are needed, and individuals are more likely to infiltrate heavily guarded targets
    c. Suicide terrorism is often more strategic and have specific political or territorial goals
    d. History shows that it has been working, for example Israel and the Gaza Strip/West Bank
    e. Terrorists are more willing than states to violate the norms of the international system, because they do not have a stake in the system like states do
    f. Clash of civilizations
    i. Suicide terrorism used have been employed by Palestinian groups to force Israel to abandon the West Bank and Gaza
    g. Clash of ideologies
    i. Suicide terrorism is most frequently against democracies because they are thought to strongly influence public opinion
    ii. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam wants to compel the Sri Lankan government to accept an independent Tamil homeland

  5. a. The main point of suicide terrorism is to inflict enough pain on the opposing society to overwhelm their interest in resisting the terrorists demands and thereby causing either the people to revolt against the government or cause the government to concede
    b. No escape plans are needed, and individuals are more likely to infiltrate heavily guarded targets
    c. Suicide terrorism is often more strategic and have specific political or territorial goals
    d. History shows that it has been working, for example Israel and the Gaza Strip/West Bank
    e. Terrorists are more willing than states to violate the norms of the international system, because they do not have a stake in the system like states do
    f. Clash of civilizations
    i. Suicide terrorism used have been employed by Palestinian groups to force Israel to abandon the West Bank and Gaza
    g. Clash of ideologies
    i. Suicide terrorism is most frequently against democracies because they are thought to strongly influence public opinion
    ii. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam wants to compel the Sri Lankan government to accept an independent Tamil homeland

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