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Vocabulary
Explanations For Political Violence
Terrorism
Religion and Political Violence
Miscellaneous
100
Politically motivated violence outside of state control
What is political violence
100
Existing institutions encourage violence or constrain human action which creates backlash
What is an institutional explanation for violence
100
States sponsor non-state terrorists groups to extend their power by proxy
What is state-sponsored terrorism
100
Give one condition where religion leads to political violence
What is hostility to modernity, cosmic war, or utopian/ apocalyptic beliefs
100
In war, who is the actor and who is the target?
The state is both the actor and the target
200
The use of violence by non state actors against civilians to achieve a political goal
What is terrorism
200
Ideas justify or promote violence
What is an ideational explanation for violence
200
The main difference between terrorism and guerrilla warfare
What is their targets. Terrorists target citizens, guerrilla groups target the state
200
When the modern world marginalizes, discriminates, and exterminates believers
What is cosmic war
200
What is the difference between actors in human rights violations vs. war crimes
What is domestic actors (human rights violations) vs. international actors (war crimes)
300
A public seizure of the state to overturn the existing government and regime
What is a revolution
300
Psychological or strategic factors lead people to violence
What is an individual explanation for violence
300
Democracies are more at risk for this type of terrorism
What is international terrorism
300
The desire to unite faith and state, transforming religion into the ideological foundation for a political regime is an element of this ideology
What is fundamentalism
300
The link between terrorism and revolution
Terrorism can be used as a means toward a revolutionary end
400
Non state combatants who accept traditional rules of war and target the state instead of civilians
What is guerrilla war
400
Religious fundamentalism is an example of this explanation for political violence
What is ideational
400
What type of regime is the least at risk for terrorism
What is authoritarian regimes
400
The important figure who led racist groups in the belief that Western Christianity was corrupted and weakened by a global Jewish community, and seeks to rebuild Western society on the basis of a purified white race
Who is William Pierce
400
The 3 stages of revolution
What is pre WW2, post WW2 behavioral revolution, 1970s to the present
500
The gap between actual conditions and public expectation
What is the relative deprivation model
500
List 3 forms of political violence
What is revolution, terrorism, state-sponsored terrorism, and guerrilla war
500
Which regime type generates the most opportunities and motivations for terrorism
What is an illiberal regime
500
Name 1 similarity between the leaders of violent religious movements listed in the text (Osama bin Laden, William Pierce, and Ashin Wirathu)
What is arguing that faith had lost its way, view of the world as a battle between good and evil, believed themselves to be warriors in the service of faith, and thought violence was a sacrifice that would bring higher order
500
A belief that all institutionalist values are essentially meaningless, the only redeeming value is violence
What is nihilism