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The Changing Character of Terrorism and its Implications

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What is most striking about the September 11 catastrophe is the lack of any clear and public demands. To attach demands to war acts is normal in partisan wars and in terrorism for two reasons: a) it demonstrates one's ability to hit and destroy, i.e., to have power; and b) it constitutes a prerequisite for gaining legitimation in order to negotiate—the kind of negotiations that transform the partisan or the terrorist into a political interlocutor (in the full sense of the word) with whom it is possible to end the war and work out a peace.

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