# Week 1 Definition of Terrorism of [[Course - Terrorism and Counterterrorism Comparing Theory and Practice]] ## Required Readings - Hase, Valerie. ‘What is terrorism (according to the news)? How the German press selectively labels political violence as “terrorism”’. _Journalism,_ 2021 (online first) [click here to read](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14648849211017003) [[What is terrorism according to the news]] - Rapoport, David, C. ‘Four Waves of Rebel Terror and September 11’. _Antropoethics_, vol. 8, no. 1, 2002 [click here to read](http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0801/terror/ "click here to read") - Bakker, Edwin. _‘Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies. Comparing Theory & Practice_’_,_ Leiden University Press, 2015 / Chapter 1 [click here to read](https://www.lup.nl/wp-content/uploads/Chapter-1-Definition-and-nature-of-terrorism.pdf) ## Extra Readings - Bakker, Edwin. _‘_ Exclusion: who decides - and on what ground? Hizb ut-Tahrir and the HDIM’. _Helsinki Monitor_, vol. 18, no. 4, 2007 [click here to read.](https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/terrorism%2FBakker%20pdf%20Exclusion.pdf) - Bruce, Gregor._‘_ Definition of Terrorism – Social and Political Effects’. _Journal of Military and Veterans' Health_, vol. 21, no. 2, 2013 [click here to read](https://jmvh.org/article/definitionof-terrorism-social-and-political-effects/ "click here to read") - Europol, TE-SAT: EU terrorism situation and trend report, 2021 [click here to read](https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/main-reports/european-union-terrorism-situation-and-trend-report-2021-tesat "click here to read") - Human Rights Watch. ‘ In the Name of Security: Counterterrorism Laws since September 11’, June 2012 [click here to read](http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/06/29/name-security-0) - Jensen, Richard._‘_ Daggers, Rifles, and Dynamite: Anarchist Terrorism in Nineteenth-Century Europe’. _Terrorism and Political Violence_, vol. 16, no.1, 2004 [click here for more information on this publication](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0954655049046?casa_token=MmYm5-xo0F0AAAAA%3AXgFU4r5WdAZzkSqZuJhC2Zx60a29N7rKCbOJjEMxvUjjr9edlJ6iZ9izabQU9LYLgjuzAp8tfVJFYQ "click here to read") - LaFree, Gary. ‘The Global Terrorism Database: Accomplishments and Challenges’. _Perspectives on Terrorism_, vol. 4, no. 1, 2010 [click here to read](https://www.jstor.org/stable/26298434?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents "click here to read") - Schmid, Alex. ‘Terrorism: The Definitional Problem’. _Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law_, vol. 4, 2004 [click here to read](https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1400&context=jil "click here to read") - Sinai, Joshua. ‘How to Define Terrorism’. _Perspectives on Terrorism_, vol. II, no. 4, 2008 [click here to read](https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/content/assets/governance-and-global-affairs/isga/perspectives-on-terrorism/2008-4.pdf "click here to read") - Silke, Andrew. ‘_Routledge Handbook of Terrorism and Counterterrorism’_, Routledge, 2019 [click here for more information on this publication](https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Terrorism-and-Counterterrorism/Silke/p/book/9780367580520 "click here for more information") - Tinnes, Judith. ‘The Art of Searching: How to Find Terrorism Literature in the Digital Age’. _Perspectives on Terrorism_, vol. 7, no. 4, 2013 [click here to read](https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/content/assets/customsites/perspectives-on-terrorism/2013/issue-4/the-art-of-searching-how-to-find-terrorism-literature-in-the-digital-age--judith-tinnes.pdf) - United Nations. ‘_Uniting Against Terrorism’._ May 2006 [click here to read](http://www.refworld.org/docid/4786248b7.html)