The aim of the present article is to derive a more precise definition of political terrorism based on a minimal set of criteria (part 1). In part 2 typologies of violence are at issue with an emphasis on sub-state groups and political terrorism. Thereafter (part 3) a multi-level causal model is...

This paper has multiple objectives. I set out linkages of a causal model to portray how globalization influences international terrorist strategies. I also point to methodological and theoretical shortcomings in the literature with respect to the levels of disaggregation at which issues are...