s of national liberation which have, broadly speaking, provided the framework of justification for both guerilla warfare and terrorism in the modern Third World, as well as for domestic terrorists in the West who have either asserted solidarity with Third World movements or (in the case of right wing terrorists) asserted their opposition to such movements, their ideologies, and their actual or supposed sympathesizers in the West.
Certain works may fall into both of the above sub categories. For example, the Russian anarchist terrorists of the late nineteenth centuries contributed both to the development of radical leftist ideology, and therefore to the ideological framework of leftist (and, indirectly, of rightist) terrorism, and who also developed the concept of "propaganda by the deed," and therefore introduced an explicit theory of terrorism as a form of communication.
The second broad category, literature on contemporary terrorism and terrorist movements can also be divided into two classes, which may be broadly charactized as descriptive and theoretical; the distinction is relatively marked, although many works combine descriptive and theoretical material to a greater or lesser degree.
The descriptive literature of terrorism ranges from the journalistic to the statistical, and includes works of a scholarly, partisan, and even practical orientation, the latter characterization applying to works that seek to provide instruction either to counter terror specialists or to business executives and others who may feel the need to take personal protective measures against a terrorist threat.
Much of this literature tends to be partisan or polemical in character. The writers of works in this category appear to be largely conservative in their political orientation, and implicit in much of their writing is an argument that the terrorist threat is one that the West and the United States in particular sh...