Dog du nu igen, lille vän? Terrorismforskningens skiftande kategorier.

Sammanfattning: The concept of terrorism is deeply negative. This effects the politics of the world but as well the studies of terrorism it self. This paper will try to categorize these studies. Because the author believes that you can find disparate understandings and premises of fundamental issues about the state and political violence in the research of the terrorism. The political scientists Hans F Petersson and Martin Wight are the methodical followers in the author’s work to interpret diverse texts and finally construct the categories. The conclusion is that you at least can find five basically different attitudes. First the Etatists, they justify the right of states to protect its interests whatever method it needs. Second we got the Liberals, they will combine hard protection with consideration of human rights. In third we got the Critics, they deconstruct the debate of terrorism and the effects of counterterrorism in society. Fourth, the Revisionists are outspoken critics of the liberal democracies and claim that states are the real terrorists. And fifth and last the Analytical tradition, they try to explain and classify political violence in a neutral manner.