Question 1

In your opinion, are rebels sometimes labeled too quickly as terrorists?

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Question 2

In your opinion, what is the most likely threat scenario for the use of biological weapons?

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Question 3

In your opinion, what is the most likely threat scenario for the use of radiological weapons?

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Question 4

Discuss the threat from asymmetrical warfare.

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Question 5

In your opinion, what is the most likely threat scenario for the use of chemical weapons?

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Question 6

In your opinion, what is the most likely threat scenario for the use of nuclear weapons?

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Question 7

What are the reasons behind the rise in cell-based organizational arrangements among revolutionaries, and the decline in paramilitary arrangements? Describe the characteristics of cell-based and paramilitary arrangements.

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Question 8

Compare and contrast the motives of nihilist and revolutionary dissident terrorists. Why would dissidents adopt a nihilist vision rather than a revolutionary vision? In your opinion, does the logic of one make more sense than the other? Explain your answer.

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Question 9

Using the case of Chechen violence against Russian interests, critique the new dissident terrorist morality. Are the Chechens fighting on behalf of a just cause? Is their war fighting methodology morally understandable under the circumstances? Explain your answer.

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Question 10

Discuss the factors which give rise to communal dissident terrorism. Why do population groups engage in massive degrees of violence against other groups? Is such violence ever justifiable or otherwise understandable? Explain your answer.

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Question 11

In your opinion, is selection of hijackings and other international violence by nationalists necessary from their perspective? Was it justifiable?

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Question 12

In your opinion, should the international community intervene when genocidal communal terrorism occurs? Discuss circumstances when this would be a necessary policy option.

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Question 13

Discuss why the new terrorist morality occurred.

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Question 14

Why do some dissidents adopt anti-state terrorism as a strategy? What do they hope to accomplish?

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Question 15

In your opinion, what explains sectarian violence in societies which have long histories of residing together, such as Lebanon, Yugoslavia, and Northern Ireland?

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Question 16

Discuss the feasibility of obtaining weapons of mass destruction by terrorists. Which weapons are more easily obtained? Which weapons are less easily obtained? How would they be obtained in the first place? Explain your answer.

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Question 17

The gun and the bomb are traditional terrorist weapons that still predominate in the arsenals of violent extremists. How have these weapons been wielded in the era of the New Terrorism? Explain how the threat from these traditional weapons has evolved in the modern era.

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Question 18

Discuss the threat from suicide attacks. In your opinion, why did suicide attacks become a common tactic in some conflicts? What impact has the concept of martyrdom had on such attacks.

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Question 19

In your opinion, what are the likely implications of the availability of information on the Internet from the perspective of extremists?

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Quiz 6: Terrorism by Dissidents

In your opinion, are rebels sometimes labeled too quickly as terrorists?

In your opinion, what is the most likely threat scenario for the use of biological weapons?

In your opinion, what is the most likely threat scenario for the use of radiological weapons?

Discuss the threat from asymmetrical warfare.

In your opinion, what is the most likely threat scenario for the use of chemical weapons?

In your opinion, what is the most likely threat scenario for the use of nuclear weapons?

What are the reasons behind the rise in cell-based organizational arrangements among revolutionaries, and the decline in paramilitary arrangements? Describe the characteristics of cell-based and paramilitary arrangements.

Compare and contrast the motives of nihilist and revolutionary dissident terrorists. Why would dissidents adopt a nihilist vision rather than a revolutionary vision? In your opinion, does the logic of one make more sense than the other? Explain your answer.

Using the case of Chechen violence against Russian interests, critique the new dissident terrorist morality. Are the Chechens fighting on behalf of a just cause? Is their war fighting methodology morally understandable under the circumstances? Explain your answer.

Discuss the factors which give rise to communal dissident terrorism. Why do population groups engage in massive degrees of violence against other groups? Is such violence ever justifiable or otherwise understandable? Explain your answer.

In your opinion, is selection of hijackings and other international violence by nationalists necessary from their perspective? Was it justifiable?

In your opinion, should the international community intervene when genocidal communal terrorism occurs? Discuss circumstances when this would be a necessary policy option.

Discuss why the new terrorist morality occurred.

Why do some dissidents adopt anti-state terrorism as a strategy? What do they hope to accomplish?

In your opinion, what explains sectarian violence in societies which have long histories of residing together, such as Lebanon, Yugoslavia, and Northern Ireland?

Discuss the feasibility of obtaining weapons of mass destruction by terrorists. Which weapons are more easily obtained? Which weapons are less easily obtained? How would they be obtained in the first place? Explain your answer.

The gun and the bomb are traditional terrorist weapons that still predominate in the arsenals of violent extremists. How have these weapons been wielded in the era of the New Terrorism? Explain how the threat from these traditional weapons has evolved in the modern era.

Discuss the threat from suicide attacks. In your opinion, why did suicide attacks become a common tactic in some conflicts? What impact has the concept of martyrdom had on such attacks.

In your opinion, what are the likely implications of the availability of information on the Internet from the perspective of extremists?