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Terrorism: who is a legitimate target?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

Michael Donelan
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I hope that I have not given offence by my title. No one is a legitimate target of terrorism. I mean that thinking about terrorism involves thinking about who is and who is not a legitimate target for political force.

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Review of International Studies , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , July 1987 , pp. 229 - 233
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1987

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1. Detailed e.g., in Walzer, Michael, Just and Unjust Wars (London, 1978), pp. 201 ff.Google Scholar

2. Anscombe, G. E. M., ‘War and Murder’ in Stein, Walter (ed.), Nuclear Weapons and Christian Conscience (London, 2nd edn., 1965), p. 49.Google Scholar

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