1. NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERN:
EVOLUTION OF
TERRORISM

2. EVOLUTION OF TERRORISM
STAGE 1:
EARLY TERRORISM
1A.D. – 1960s
STAGE 2:
CONVENTIONAL TERRORISM
1960s – 1990s
STAGE 3:
CONTEMPORARY TERRORISM
1990s - ???

3. stage 1: Early Terrorism
Core Feature: Authority Targeting
Explanation: Nature of Political Power

4. Reasons of the Pattern Shift
1) Cold War Era
2) Changes in Global Political Environment
3) Change in Nature of Political Power

5. stage 2: Conventional Terrorism
Features:
Mass Mediated Terrorism
Instruments of Terror

6. Mass Mediated Terrorism
Two Tactics
A lot of people watching,
Not a lot of people dead.
A lot of people watching,
And a lot of people dead.
Mostly extremist Islamic
groups:
Hizbollah, Al Qaeda…
Mostly European groups:
IRA and ETA bombings

7. Instruments of Terror Bombings, shootings, hi-jacking, hostage-taking
(methods physical pressure)
Production and trafficking of drugs, illicit arms sales
and other forms of organized criminal activity

8. Reason of the Pattern Shift
End of the Cold War and Changes on International Arena

9. stage 3: Contemporary Terrorism
Features:
Component of Ideology
Catastrophic Terrorism
Geopolitical Load

10. CONCLUSION The shift in patterns is stretched out in time
The shift does not mean the rejection of previously
used methods and tactics
Harm capacity and danger posed by terrorism
increase with the advent of every other terrorism stage
Double standards policy is no longer acceptable in
the struggle with terrorism
Further unwillingness to compromise and cooperate is
a criminal negligence