Terrorism and Security IRL3516 L, Niyazbekov Nurseit

1. When faced with a hostage taking situation, how would you, as a negotiator, identify a terrorist as

either a crazy, criminal or a crusader type?

2. Provide one example of terrorist organization operating under each type of four strains?

3. What’s wrong with the Rapaport’s Four Waves of Terrorism theory?

4. What is the relationship between social identity theory and terrorism?

5. How does modernization precondition terrorism in the long run according to Crenshaw’s paper?

6. Why nationalism is hard to distinguish from separatism as one of the motivating factors of

terrorism?