Případové studie vztahu sebevražedného terorismus a okupace. Kritická analýza přístupu Roberta Papea.
Case Study of Relation Between Suicide Terrorism and Occupation. Critical Analysis of Robert Pape's Approach.

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on a long-term research project and findings of Robert Pape who deals with root causes of suicide terrorism and as such is an important contribution to the discussions on global war on terrorism. Pape has elaborated the largest suicide terrorist attacks database (1980-2010) and a strong theory of suicide terrorism based on it. His approach consists of three levels of analysis: organizational (strategic), social (community), and individual logic. The terrorism pattern consists of racional strategy that is part of an asymmetric conflict with an occupying power which is a democratic state that is not willing to negotiate. Finally, there must be a religious difference between the two adversaries. The article is using five selected case studies (occupation of Libanon, Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq, the case of Al Qaeda) to critically introduce the theoretical model, to show its strengths and weaknesses. At the end, it is discussing the main general criticism, especially the weak explanatory power of the model to deal with new emerging patterns of transnational suicide terrorism.

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