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In recent years , there has been a burgeoning of studies related to international
terrorism , many related to and resulting from current events and occurrences . However , the enterprise of terrorism scholarship within the framework of political science
and international relations poses some interesting dilemmas for the discipline . While
other topics in the field have received increasingly rigorous examination , the study of
terrorism , comparatively , remains in a nascent stage . Though many of the tools of
analysis from other areas of international relations scholarship can be re -applied tfi
the study of terrorism , it appears that some must be modified and others discarded
altogether . Instead of seeking to fit terrorists , and , indeed , other state actors , into the
common rubric of international relations scholarship , I argue here that it is important
to reconceptualize international interaction in light of the problems that such actors
pose to traditional research . Thus , in the following thesis , I will explore the challenges
the study of terrorism poses to researchers in the fields of international relations and
political science . After discussing the theoretical foundations and quandaries of the
study of international terrorism in political science , I will utilize these remarks as a
groundwork for developing a game -theoretic model that incorporates some of these
challenges and an econometric model to test some of its implications . |