Neuer Terrorismus – Reale Bedrohung oder konstruiertes Forschungsparadigma?

Using a qualitative study, in which she evaluates 142,000 terrorist attacks, the author of this book, Julia Klein, investigates the existence of the research paradigm ‘new terrorism’. She delves into the media, political and academic discourse on this subject and identifies changes in behaviour among terrorist organisations. Her evaluation of the volume of data on terrorist attacks verifies whether a new form of terrorism has existed since the beginning of the 1990s. This also reveals the influence of certain individuals on the debate, and the author is able to demonstrate that, above all, the importance of religion in providing terrorists with an ideological incentive to perpetrate their attacks has been overestimated.