Terrorism and the Democratic State

Terrorism Risk and Democratic Preferences in Pakistan

Beyond direct damages, terrorism creates fear and insecurity, potentially reducing support for democratic institutions if these are deemed inadequate to tackle the threat, and increasing support for military governments. To investigate this possibility, we use data from Pakistan, a country that experienced an exponential rise in terrorism since 2001. Exploiting individual level data on democrat...

Jabri , the theory of state: the social power and ideal of democratic changes

  Mohammed Abed al-jabri has advanced tow main projects in his intelectual endeavours: first, an anattempt to study and reveal, as he say, Arab-islamic reason, second to propuse ideas to  restrucutring it with an aim for political changes in The line of democratic order. In this propuse, he confronts, both directly and idirectly, with a theory of state. This research deals with consisteney of...

The Effects of Democratic Presidential and Parliamentary Systems on Hostage-Taking Terrorism

The Autopoietic State: Communication and Democratic Potential in the Net

The relationship between the practice of democracy and the use of new information technologies is dependent upon the technologies of communication and information, rules regarding the use of those technologies, and the nature of the entity making rules regarding those technologies. Since today developments In all three of these areas are turbulent, this article looks to social theory that deals...

The Invention of Modern State Terrorism during the French Revolution

This essay discusses three aspects of the Terror (September 1793–July 1794): (1) The Institutions of the Terror: The Committee of General Security, the Committee of Public Safety, and the Revolutionary Tribunal; (2) the Theory of Terror: The unity and indivisibility of the people, the category of enemy of the people, and the concept of Revolution as a state of war against aristocratic/foreign c...