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Comment: Politics of terrorism.

  • UPSC 1995
  • 20 marks
  • Party System

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Bruce Hoffman, in Inside Terrorism (1998), defines terrorism as violence, or the threat of it, used by an organised group for a political aim and designed to spread fear far beyond its immediate victims. That definition makes terrorism politics by other means. The politics of terrorism works at three levels: who gets to name it,…

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  • The politics of definition
  • Terrorism as political strategy
  • The politics of counter-terrorism
  • The Indian experience in the 1990s
  • Conclusion
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