Talk:Lecture 1

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Sean West (GSPP/2nd Year MPP): The parallel we discussed about 19th/early 20th century terrorism and current terrorism was explored by The Economist in their August 18th issue. I recommend others read it; the opening follows (I can't reprint it all for copyright issues). (If you have a subscription to Economist On-line you can download it):

Anarchists and jihadists Aug 18th 2005 From The Economist print edition


BOMBS, beards and backpacks: these are the distinguishing marks, at least in the popular imagination, of the terror-mongers who either incite or carry out the explosions that periodically rock the cities of the western world. A century or so ago it was not so different: bombs, beards and fizzing fuses. The worries generated by the two waves of terror, the responses to them and some of their other characteristics are also similar.…

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