| ID | 133535 |
| Title Proper | If I were you, I wouldn't start from here: response to marc sage man's "the stagnation in terrorism research" |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Taylor, Max |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Have you heard the story about the Englishman lost in an Irish mist trying to find the route to Limerick? He reaches a country crossroads, and asks an old man for directions; after much thought the old man's answer is, "If I were you I wouldn't start from here." From Sageman's account, you might in many ways infer that's the story of much contemporary terrorism research, and is, it seems to me, the unstated fundamental assumption behind his paper-if we had the freedom to start from scratch, if we were designing an area of study to investigate how violence is used to do things to influence political decision making, we'd probably want to conduct ourselves in a different way than we have. But we are where we are. Whether we like it or not, in studying terrorism and the terrorist, we engage with a world in which governments, officials, and politicians largely define the agenda (and keep changing it), set the rules for risk tolerance, and to a large extent control the money and through the choices they make direct research agendas. |
| `In' analytical Note | Terrorism and Political Violence Vol.26, No.4; Sep-Oct.2014: p.581-586 |
| Journal Source | Terrorism and Political Violence Vol.26, No.4; Sep-Oct.2014: p.581-586 |
| Key Words | Stagnation ; Terrorism ; Political Violence ; National Security ; Terrorist Organization ; Al-Qaeda ; Post 9/11 World ; Academic Research ; United States - US ; International Organization - IO ; Terrorism Research ; Contemporary Terrorism |