THE FUTURE OF TERRORISM

Authors : Mehmet Erkin Kara

Pages : 209-235

Doi:10.58375/sde.1637580

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Publication Date : 2025-05-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The dramatic rise of terrorism has accelerated after 9/11 Attacks and it has comprehensively affected the world within public eyes and academic world. Although every human being use the terrorism term and they know what terrorist’s methods are, most of them can’t explain properly the meaning of terrorism or theory of terrorism. Evaluating modern history of terrorism is very hard to categorize too. Furthermore, there are a lot of definitions and description of terrorism in academic world. But there is no prominent consensus about its definition and description in international community. But David Rapoport’s academic article “The Four Waves of Terrorism” has been accepted as the most respectful analyzed theory which is about history of modern international terrorism in security and terrorism studies literature. According to his theory, terrorism waves emerges, peaks, and recedes in a wave like pattern. The first wave began with anarchist terrorism and they have been currently going on with fourth waves of terrorism which is a religion wave. Numerous studies were conducted after his four waves of modern terrorism theory. Most of them have searched for fifth waves which may be seen in the future. But they haven’t been accepted as influential as David Rapoport’s four waves of terrorism theory. In this perspective this study aims to add a new accessible approach for fifth waves of terrorism. Thus it simply seeks to fulfill this need.
Keywords : Terörizm, Teori, Terörizm Teorisi, Terörizm Dalgası Teorisi, Beşinci Terörizm Dalgası

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