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===Answer by Jana Hybášková:===
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Terrorism uses war against the civilian population as a tool for gaining political power. Terrorism was used over the centuries in different parts of the world. Very often civilians belonged to different religions, or different ethnic groups. Was massacre through which the Abbasid dynasty gained power in Damascus terrorism?  Was this a connection to globalization? Abbasid created a worldwide, global emporium. The yeni ceri hordes in the Balkans…And wars of modern nations for independence, from Greeks to the Algerian FLN, from Jewish Hagana to Indian Muslims, to the PLO. We can never  define in a fully satisfactory way the line between war for independence, resistance and terrorism. The movements which were glorified by the Czech Marxist teachers in the past would reveal all the hallmarks of organized terrorist movements. These days Europe has to decide if the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are or are not a terrorist organization. The same holds true for Hezbollah and Hamas. Can we say that the IRA or ETA or Tupaku Amaru are reactions to interaction between countries and higher technological processes, different moral concepts and different social values and standards?  Definitely we can not. Terrorism as such has no direct linkage to globalization; it is not its result, nor its part.   
Terrorism uses war against the civilian population as a tool for gaining political power. Terrorism was used over the centuries in different parts of the world. Very often civilians belonged to different religions, or different ethnic groups. Was massacre through which the [http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ISLAM/ABASSID.HTM Abbasid dynasty] gained power in Damascus terrorism?  Was this a connection to globalization? Abbasid created a worldwide, global emporium. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissary yeni ceri] hordes in the Balkans… And wars of modern nations for independence, from Greeks to the [http://countrystudies.us/algeria/29.htm Algerian FLN], from Jewish Hagana to Indian Muslims, to the [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/plo.html PLO]. We can never  define in a fully satisfactory way the line between war for independence, resistance and terrorism. The movements which were glorified by the Czech Marxist teachers in the past would reveal all the hallmarks of organized terrorist movements. These days Europe has to decide if the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are or are not a terrorist organization. The same holds true for Hezbollah and Hamas. Can we say that the IRA or ETA or Tupaku Amaru are reactions to interaction between countries and higher technological processes, different moral concepts and different social values and standards?  Definitely we can not. Terrorism as such has no direct linkage to globalization; it is not its result, nor its part.   


Can globalization enhance terrorism? Here we have to be very careful. Your question suggests an often repeated misunderstanding: the difference between globalization and industrial modernization. Modernization came about as a result of industrial revolution; the globalization of world prices was one of the processes accompanying the industrial revolution. We have to make a precise differentiation between them.
Can globalization enhance terrorism? Here we have to be very careful. Your question suggests an often repeated misunderstanding: the difference between globalization and industrial modernization. Modernization came about as a result of industrial revolution; the globalization of world prices was one of the processes accompanying the industrial revolution. We have to make a precise differentiation between them.
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