Abstract
Orthodox terrorism studies tend to focus on the activities of illiberal non-state actors against the liberal democratic states in the North. It thus excludes state terrorism, which is one of a number of repressive tools that great powers from the North have used extensively in the global South in the service of foreign policy objectives. I establish the reasons for the absence of state terrorism from orthodox accounts of terrorism and argue that critical–normative approaches could help to overcome this major weakness.
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Blakeley, R. bringing the state back into terrorism studies. Eur Polit Sci 6, 228–235 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.eps.2210139
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