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Terrorism And Globalization: An International Perspective, Linda Lim
Terrorism And Globalization: An International Perspective, Linda Lim
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Terrorism has little or nothing to do with globalization, just as it has little or nothing to do with Islam. Most of the many varieties of terrorism that afflict and have long afflicted the world are responses not to global phenomena, but to intensely local ones. Examples include particularly ethnic, nationalist, and religious fault lines such as violence by Catholics and Protestants in Ireland; Basques in Spain; the Hindu Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka; Kashmiris, Sikhs, and Hindu nationalists in India; the Aum cult in Japan; and Uighurs in Xinjiang, China.
The terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center on …