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How to Define Terrorism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Jenny Teichman
Jenny Teichman
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New Hall, Cambridge
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Extract

The philosophical interest of terrorism is due partly to the fact that the term is notoriously difficult to define, and partly to the fact that there is some disagreement about whether and when terrorism so-called can be justified.

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Research Article
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Philosophy , Volume 64 , Issue 250 , October 1989 , pp. 505 - 517
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1989

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