Original title: Čečensko jako nebezpečné pohraničí Ruska: O povaze sebevražedného terorismu
Translated title: Chechnya as Russia's dangerous frontier: On the Nature of Suicide Terrorism
Authors: Loginova, Karyna ; Valková, Irena (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
Document type: Master’s theses
Year: 2017
Language: eng
Abstract: Ever since World War II up to the 80`s the world had not witnessed any form of suicide terrorism. Since then the rate of such attacks have been growing on a global level. Nowadays, suicide terrorism is one of the most researched and still not fully explained syndromes that imposes threat to nations, societies, individuals, groups, governments and other parties. Many studies and analyses focus on determining the reasons and the motives for such acts, including the damages that suicide terrorism causes on global level. There have been multiple variables determined as key factors influencing suicide terrorism, including religion, political occupation, nationalism and many others, yet there is no single answer as to why organizations and/or individuals decide on such radical tactic. Thus, as a modern phenomenon, suicide terrorism triggers the analysis from several perspectives of the individual, organizational and psychological background. This master thesis deals with the case study of Chechen suicide terrorism and its implications in the studies of suicide terrorism. The main focus of the research is on determining main motives and reasons of Chechnya to use suicide bombing against Russia. The analysis uses the Robert Pape's theory on suicide terrorism and done by using qualitative research, with...
Keywords: Chechnya; Russian Politics; Suicide terrorism; Terrorism; Chechnya; Russian Politics; Suicide terrorism; Terrorism

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
Document availability information: Available in the Charles University Digital Repository.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/2284

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