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Terrorism: who is a legitimate target?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2009
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I hope that I have not given offence by my title. No one is a legitimate target of terrorism. I mean that thinking about terrorism involves thinking about who is and who is not a legitimate target for political force.
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