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Contribution to the Debate on Terrorism: Is There a State Terrorism

Originally terrorism appeared as a form of state action and as a mean of establishing and consolidating governance. Despite that and the abundance of real political, state terrorist empirical evidence, contemporary studies of terrorism, without any real justification, neglect the existence of state terrorism. The monopoly that state has on the legitimate utilization of violence does not exclude the existence of state terrorism. State terrorism is a result of instrumental strategic rational state’s choice. It is the constitutional element of state action, both in totalitarian states which are being rightfully called “terrorist states” and liberal - democratic states. State terrorism is an instrument of state action on the domestic political and foreign political level and it is being used in the conditions of peace, state of emergency and war.

terrorism ; state terrorism ; liberal-democracy ; terrorist state ; studies of terrorism

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