The RAND Chronology of International Terrorism for 1987 is used to demonstrate the linkage between terrorism and world system theory (WST). Structural and economic terrorism are analyzed based on Fanon's historical theory of violence. WST is employed to examine international terrorism contextually (in three different case studies of U.S., U.S.S.R. and Cameroon) and to analyze how world system (WS) distribution of power determines the definition and labeling of terrorism. The study reveals that oppression engenders terrorism in the WS. As a theoretical tool WST is employed to study how patterns of violence and resistance are created by colonial policies practiced by core nations upon semiperiphery and peripheral nations and how the WS itself is responsible for creating structural terrorism. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-08, Section: A, page: 3216. / Major Professor: Michael J. Lynch. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1993.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76994 |
| Contributors | Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba Declan., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 287 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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