期刊名称：International Journal of Conflict and Violence
印刷版ISSN：1864-1385
出版年度：2007
卷号：1
期号：2
页码：92-104
出版社：International Journal of Conflict and Violence
摘要：This article examines the history and the development of terrorism as a research subject for social sciences. It gives an impression of how the subject’s theoretical remit has changed over the last decades — explicitly taking into account the characteristics of a modern and global world and their impact on current understandings of terrorism. Terrorism is a minor object for the social sciences; it was even long considered “illegitimate” and neglected by researchers. There are several explanations for this, which I think my long experience in research authorizes me to evoke here.
