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The last examples of terrorist attacks Peter Neumann, the Director of the
where the main actors were individuals, are International Centre for the Study of
not institutionally related to the Islamic Radicalization and Political Violence,
terrorist organizations, rather they act the Islamic State is significantly less
independently, are another new stage – selective than the other groups. “It is
terrorism where everyone can be a terrorist quite probably that ISIS will accept you
– open source terrorism. even when you come from the West,
This recent upheaval in the recruitment when you do not speak Arabic, you are
of terrorists puts the economists ahead of not particularly good fighter, and you
another more difficult challenge among do not have some particular skills.”
the randomly selected terrorists to find a
form which could indicate whether there Shortly, the various economic fac-
are economic policies that could have tors are some of the determinants that
a proactive action in the direction of can partially help in the understanding
terrorism suppression of the nature of terrorism. The nature
of terrorism, starting from the fact
tremist movement closely related to that both analysts and international
Al-Quaeda. Since the announcement of organizations cannot agree on the very
this Report it is considered that these definition of the term, and the circum-
same communities joined the war in stances we live in constantly change,
Syria as well. introduces new factors of the conflict,
for example, climate change is consid-
Al-Qaeda called into question an- ered an important factor which in the
other form which is previously estab- future will determine the nature of
lished with the economic research. terrorism. Therefore, the established
Namely, some economists considered economic legalities mostly describe
that the terrorist organizations have the previous forms of terrorism and
internal division where the richer peo- the legalities that they had at a group
ple with higher education are leaders or individual level.
of the movement, while the relatively
poorer people within the very organi- The last examples of terrorist at-
zation are appointed for fieldwork. The tacks where the main actors were indi-
reason why the field workers deviated viduals, are not institutionally related
from the average of the population to the Islamic terrorist organizations,
was that the terrorist organizations rather they act independently, are an-
were able to choose their successors other new stage – terrorism where ev-
among the many people who wanted eryone can be a terrorist – open source
to join them. However, Al-Qaeda, and terrorism.
particularly ISIS, established low stan-
dards for everyone who wanted to join Al-Qaeda initiated this trend by pub-
them. According to the observation by lishing instructions on the preparation
of bombs and methods of attack, en-
couraging the potential “martyrs” to
act in environments where they have
a difficulty to include fighters who are
strongly related to their organization,
and ISIS joined them as well.
This recent upheaval in the recruit-
ment of terrorists puts the economists
ahead of another more difficult chal-
lenge among the randomly selected
terrorists to find a form which could
indicate whether there are economic
policies that could have a proactive ac-
tion in the direction of terrorism sup-
pression.
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