ABSTRACT

This article introduces the contents of this special issue on terrorist groups. After some general remarks, we review essential concepts germane to the issue’s eight articles. Those concepts include the notion of terrorist groups and their alternative ideologies and goals. Differences between domestic and transnational terrorist attacks are briefly reviewed along with time-series plots of such attacks during 1970–2019. Other plots compare and contrast leftist and religious fundamentalist terrorist groups based on their number of attacks and active groups during 1970–2016. The introduction is devoted mainly to highlighting the individual articles and their contributions.

摘要

本文介绍了本期恐怖组织特刊的内容。在进行一些一般性评论之后，我们回顾了与该问题的八篇文章密切相关的基本概念。这些概念包括恐怖主义团体的概念及其替代意识形态和目标。简要回顾了国内和跨国恐怖袭击之间的差异以及 1970-2019 年此类袭击的时间序列图。其他情节根据 1970 年至 2016 年期间的袭击次数和活跃团体的数量来比较和对比左翼和宗教原教旨主义恐怖组织。引言主要致力于突出个别文章及其贡献。