Breaking the Waves: How the Phenomenon of European Jihadism Militates Against the Wave Theory of Terrorism | Zendy

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Breaking the Waves: How the Phenomenon of European Jihadism Militates Against the Wave Theory of Terrorism

Author(s) -

Denys Proshyn

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

international studies interdisciplinary political and cultural journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2300-8695

pISSN - 1641-4233

DOI - 10.1515/ipcj-2015-0007

Subject(s) - jihadism , terrorism , phenomenon , politics , political science , criminology , value (mathematics) , epistemology , positive economics , political economy , psychology , sociology , law , computer science , economics , philosophy , machine learning , ideology

David Rapoport’s Wave theory of terrorism is one of the most oftencited theories in the literature on terrorist violence. Rapoport is praised for having provided researchers with a universal instrument which allows them to explain the origin and transformation of various historical types of terrorism by applying to them the concept of global waves of terrorist violence driven by universal political impulses. This article, testing the Wave theory against the recent phenomenon of homegrown jihadism in Europe, uncovers this theory’s fundamental weaknesses and questions its real academic and practical value

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