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Histoire du terrorisme de l'antiquité à Al Qaida (The History of Terrorism from Antiquity to al-Qaeda) Gérard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin (Eds.), Bayard, Paris, 2004, 663 pp. (with index), euro39.90 ISBN 2 227 47296 0,
Keywords: Terrorism, Terror, International relations, Ethics
Terrorism, stress these editors and their contributors, cannot be separated from terror. Terror itself is a technique used to contest power, seize power, and then to stay in power. The word "terrorism" was invented during France's great revolutionary terror of 1793-1794 but today the term connotes the applications of asymmetric force: the relating of the powers...