How to Define Terrorism

Philosophy 64 (250):505 - 517 (1989)
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The philosophical interest of terrorism is due partly to the fact that the term is notoriously difficult to define, and partly to the fact that there is some disagreement about whether and when terrorism so-called can be justified

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10.1017/s0031819100044260

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