ABSTRACT
In contemporary social sciences, political violence has been studied mainly inside two broad traditions that very rarely interacted with each other: terrorism studies (which emerged within security studies as a branch of international relations) and social movement studies. According to data presented by Jeroen Gunning (2009), a key word search for ‘social movements’ found that of the 1,569 articles in two of the core terrorism studies journals, only 17 articles related to social movements; a search for terrorism-terrorist under the heading ‘social movements’ of the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences database yielded 81 articles, but most of them were published after 2000.
