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VOL. VII, Issue 2

The Role of Foreign Influences in Early Terrorism: Examples and Implications for Understanding Modern Terrorism

Globalisation has been linked with outbreaks of political violence and terrorism in the modern world. An analysis of Judean revolts against Rome and the Seleucid Greeks, individual suicide attacks in South and Southeast Asia in the 17th century to the early 20th century, and the Boxer Rebellion in China suggest that the intrusion of foreign influences had similar effects in the past.

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