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Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
That the impact of terrorism is equal to the reaction it elicits may be a truism, but one that deserves further probing as demonstrated by the way that reaction is put to use politically. Whichever of 150-strong definitions [1] is accepted, the consequential aspect of terrorism is "ideational": the assault targets the concept and experience of normal in the lives and minds of ordinary people. Several writers argue that terrorism is generally inefficacious, strategically counterproductive and mostly unsuccessful as a method of attaining socio-political objectives [2]. However, overall public response to 11 September 2001 has been so profound that 9-11 probably can go down in history as the first ever "success" of terrorism.
Repository Citation
Isen, Galip. "Discourse of Evil: Speaking Terrorism to Silence." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 3, no. 3, 2003, pp. 1–20. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol3/iss3/6
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