By National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Center for Social and Economic Studies, Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism, Social, and Institional Issues Panel on Behavioral, Faith Mitchell,
The occasions and aftermath of September eleven, 2001, profoundly replaced the process heritage of the state. in addition they introduced the phenomenon often called terrorism to the vanguard of the nation's cognizance. because it turned hence targeted, the bounds of clinical knowing of terrorism and the means to strengthen rules to accommodate it grew to become much more obvious. the target of this file is to deliver behavioral and social technology views to endure at the nature, determinants, and family responses to modern terrorism as a manner of creating theoretical and functional wisdom extra sufficient to the duty. It additionally identifies parts of analysis priorities for the behavioral and social sciences.
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The tremendous attention-getting potential of terrorism may have given rise in the 1990s to a new brand of terrorism that Ehud Sprinzak (2001) recently called “the megalomaniac hyperterrorist,” by which he means “self-annointed individuals with larger-than-life callings: Ramzi Youssef (the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing), Shoko Asahara (leader of Aum Shinrikyo and architect of the 1995 gas attack in Tokyo subway station), Timothy McVeigh (the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber), Osama bin Laden (likely planner of the September 11 carnage),” Igal Amir, who assassinated Itzhak Rabin—all mani- ORIGINS AND CONTEXTS OF TERRORISM 33 festing in some degree a desire to use catastrophic attacks in order to write a new chapter in history.
More will emerge in the final two sections of this chapter on political and economic aspects of terrorism. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • POLITICAL ASPECTS OF RECOVERY A post-attack development of political solidarity parallels the burst of social solidarity noted above. Citizens experience an increase in trust and support of political leaders, which can endure for long periods of time if a sense of crisis continues and it is perceived that leaders are dealing with the crisis well.
INDIVIDUAL MOTIVATIONS With respect to motivational profiles, work by Jerrold Post and others has suggested some similarities among members of given terrorist organizations, as well as some differences among the prototypical membership of different organizations. For instance, members of the German Red Army Faction and the Italian Red Brigades were likely to come from broken homes, and members of the Basque ETA group have come dispropor- 30 TERRORISM: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES tionately from mixed Spanish-Basque parentage.
