Recently, the West has become the epicentre of terrorism. Terrorists across time have encountered shifting responses to their activities, with some opponents negotiating, while others using their preponderance of military advances to contest them. Evidently, the biggest terrorist threat today derives from the East, which is the focus of my paper. The re-emergence of extremist right-wing ideologies after its condemnation since WWII, traces back to the 1970s Western oil crises blamed on left-wing governments. Yet, it took until the 1990s before the extreme right were politically legitimate, seen with the breakthrough of the French National Front in 1984, concurring with the intensification of terrorism. Since then, a new family of ‘extreme right-wing populists’ (ERP) arose in most Western countries dominating their political portrait (Mudde, 1996) .
Introduction
Terrorism, while originally evolving from religious conflicts, is also caused today by a lack of equality and fulfilment. Responses to terrorism are broad in scope; however, I set out how responses have become more refined lately with the surge of attacks, where further force has been used. This coincides with the recent rise in the extreme right-wing, with triumphs of Donald Trump …show more content…
A closely related paper is Sandler and Siqueira (2003) , modelling conflicts between terrorists and governments, where a governmental concern is public opinion. This has swayed to the extreme right-wing, as many can see explicitly the shocking impacts of terrorism. In their model, governments face a trade-off between whether to spend on the military or public. I propose Western countries today are spending additionally on militaries to deter terrorists, like the Invasion of Iraq in
Introduction
Terrorism, while originally evolving from religious conflicts, is also caused today by a lack of equality and fulfilment. Responses to terrorism are broad in scope; however, I set out how responses have become more refined lately with the surge of attacks, where further force has been used. This coincides with the recent rise in the extreme right-wing, with triumphs of Donald Trump …show more content…
A closely related paper is Sandler and Siqueira (2003) , modelling conflicts between terrorists and governments, where a governmental concern is public opinion. This has swayed to the extreme right-wing, as many can see explicitly the shocking impacts of terrorism. In their model, governments face a trade-off between whether to spend on the military or public. I propose Western countries today are spending additionally on militaries to deter terrorists, like the Invasion of Iraq in