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“Defining terrorism is immensely complicated,” Hoffman said. Paraphrasing historian David Fromkin, he said “terrorism is defined by whether you identify with the perpetrator or the victim.
Bruce R. Hoffman (born 1954) is an American political analyst.He specializes in the study of terrorism, counter-terrorism, insurgency, and counter-insurgency.Hoffman serves as the Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security on the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a professor at the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University. [1]
In his book Inside Terrorism Bruce Hoffman offered an explanation of why the term terrorism becomes distorted: On one point, at least, everyone agrees: terrorism is a pejorative term. It is a word with intrinsically negative connotations that is generally applied to one's enemies and opponents, or to those with whom one disagrees and would ...
In the absence of a definition of terrorism, the struggle over the representation of a violent act is a struggle over its legitimacy. The more confused a concept, the more it lends itself to opportunistic appropriation. [40] As scholar Bruce Hoffman (1998) has noted: "terrorism is a pejorative term. It is a word with intrinsically negative ...
It seems dire predictions of political violence are now commonly issued both by the country’s extreme fringes as well as from the mainstream, write Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware.
It was established in 1977 as Terrorism, obtaining its current name in 1992 when Terrorism was merged with another journal titled Conflict. [1] [2] It is published by Taylor & Francis and the editor-in-chief is Bruce Hoffman (Georgetown University). The Editorial Board also includes Georgetown University Professor and author Ed Husain. [3]
The Centre was founded in 1994 by Paul Wilkinson and Bruce Hoffman [4] and created the Rand-St. Andrews terrorism incident database which provides data for their studies. [ 5 ] In 1985 whilst head of Politics and International Relations at Aberdeen University , Wilkinson had established The Terrorism Research Unit in the department, which ...
Security analyst Bruce Hoffman wrote of the bombing in his 1999 book Inside Terrorism: "Unlike many terrorist groups today, the Irgun's strategy was not deliberately to target or wantonly harm civilians. At the same time, though, the claim of Begin and other apologists that warnings were issued cannot absolve either the group or its commander ...