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In our view, there have been two important developments in recent decades, which are bound to increase the probability of terrorism: First, technological innovations in the instruments of warfare, and second, changes which occurred in the international political system.
This chapter is republished with permission from Elsevier. Original Publication: Bernholz, Peter (2004): “Supreme Values and Terrorism”. European Journal of Political Economy 20(2), 2004, 317–333.
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Bernholz, P. (2017). Terrorism as a Means to Win or to Regain Secular Power. In: Totalitarianism, Terrorism and Supreme Values. Studies in Public Choice, vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56907-9_8
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