A HISTORY OF TERRORISM

Randall D. Law, Terrorism: A History, 2d. ed. (Cambridge, UK, & Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2016) ("Terrorism is as old as human civilization . . . and as new as this morning's headlines. For some, it seems obvious that individuals and organizations have used terrorism for millennia, while others insist real terrorism has only been around for decades. Both camps are right--up to a point. The weapons, methods, and goals of terrorists constantly change, but core features have remained since the earliest times." Id. at 1. "Rather than trying to pigeonhole this elusive phenomenon with an artificially precise definition, I will explore terrorism in three different ways, illuminating it from three different angles: as a set of tactics; as an act of symbolic and provocative violence; and as a cultural construct." Id. at 3.).