Essays about: "terrorist"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 191 essays containing the word terrorist.

1. 1. Countering Terrorist Content Online: Removal = Success? : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the EU Regulation 2021/784

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : Nina McCarthy Hartman; [2024]
   Keywords : Critical Discourse Analysis; Content Moderation; Counter-Terrorism; EU;

   Abstract : This thesis critically interrogates the underlying assumptions which legitimise the hard regulation of online platforms regarding terrorist content, by turning to the case of the EU Regulation 2021/784. Utilising qualitative critical discourse analysis, the study analyses how the EU's strategy against terrorist content online is discursively legitimised through the lens of Theo van Leeuwen's framework for discursive legitimisation strategies, focusing on moral and rational justifications. READ MORE

3. 2. Beyond the Terrorist Label : How Five Palestinian CSOs Experience and Resist Terrorist Allegations

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : Alma Michold; [2024]
   Keywords : Palestine; Shrinking civic space; Terrorist designation; Resistance; Ontological counter-securitization;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the terrorist designation issued by Israel against six Palestinian civil society organizations in 2021. The organizations are based in the West Bank and remain designated as terrorist organizations according to Israeli law, despite rejections and condemnations by the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN), and the United States (US). READ MORE

4. 3. The concept of civilians in terrorist thought : A multiple case study on the discourse of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Rebecca Johansson; [2023]
   Keywords : Terrorist Discourse; Civilians; Critical Discourse Analysis; Al-Qaeda; Islamic State;

   Abstract : Following the 9/11 attacks in 2001, studies on Islamic terrorism and terrorist ideology dramatically increased. Although the term has been difficult to define, "terrorism" is commonly used to describe unlawful violence against civilians for political aims. READ MORE

5. 4. The Howl of the Lone Wolf

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Jonna Rolfsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Lone Wolf; Manifesto; Narrative; Targets; Right-wing; Underdog; Ideology; Social System; Social Order; Crisis; Violence; Mass-harm; Replacement; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Attacks of mass-harm perpetrated by lone actor terrorists, also known as lone wolves which they are called in this study, have been increasing in the last few decades and has become one of the main national security threats in Sweden. With the increase in attacks, so has the research on this type of terrorism, looking at ideological reasons, target selection and the radicalisation process as well as comparisons to group-based terrorism. READ MORE

6. 5. The Impact of Economic Interests and Oil on ‘Terror-labeling’ :   A qualitative study examining the process of ‘terror-labeling’ from a state-perspective

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

   Author : Emma Paris; [2023]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : This thesis recognizes the complexity of the ‘terrorism’ phenomena, whereas specifically ‘terror-labeling’ is of interest, as the different patterns of state-labeling are acknowledged. Specifically, this paper aims at understanding what might matter for the process of ‘terror-labeling’, hypothesizing that: states with economic interests in a foreign country are more likely to label a NSAG active, or based in that country, as ‘terrorist’. READ MORE