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Coming to terms with terrorism*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

A. J. R. Groom
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Any review article has an element of pot luck. An editor receives volumes for review, sorts them into piles according to subject and then thinks of a possible reviewer. The reviewer suggests a few additions and the parameters of the article are set. They are set by what publishers think will sell at a particular time and, more rarely, by what publishers and their academic advisers think ought to be published. A review article is thus frequently about a fashionable topic with a strong emphasis on the current state of conventional wisdom as reflected in the contemporary literature. Terrorism is a topic which fits this bill. It is constantly in the headlines and not surprisingly it has generated some scholarly interest.

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Review of International Studies , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , April 1978, pp. 62 - 77
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1978

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