1. Single focused targets.
2. Kill smaller numbers of people.
What is one main difference that the authors of the text claim to "usually" differentiate religious terrorism from civil wars?
100
Christianity/Islam with 13 civil wars and Islam/Christianity with 6 civil wars
What religions are primarily involved in interfaith civil wars, being state/opposition?
200
The Taliban
What religious group rose to be one of the more dominant terrorist groups in Afghanistan after the withdraw of Soviet troops in the 1980s?
200
The mujahideen
What group of young men repelled the Soviets from achieving their political objectives at an acceptable cost in the 1980's?
300
1. Who will govern?
2. What role will religion play in relation to the state?
What were the two main questions surrounding the Taliban in Afghanistan that remain largely unanswered today?
300
High technology, specifically U.S. made Stinger SAMs
What do Western military analysts credit the victory over the Soviets in Afghanistan to?
400
Peripheral (religious) influence
What is the name of the influence that the authors state "can influence the identities and loyalties of the players in the conflict" in a religious civil war?
400
Former Communist countries of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, China, and Southeast Asia
Global resurgence of religion is evident in what seven regions of the world?
500
Globalization of religious networks
What has allowed "one state's religious violence" to cross political and geographic boundaries and "seep into the affairs of another?"
500
33% 44/135
What percentage of civil wars since 1940 are "religious civil wars"?