Mackert Jürgen
Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Soziologie, Universität Potsdam, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, August-Bebel-Straße 89, D-14482, Potsdam, Deutschland,
Rev Synth. 2014;135(4):331-59. doi: 10.1007/s11873-014-0261-z.
The article argues that individualist accounts cannot adequately explain the social dynamics of terrorist behavior as they turn analyses of terrorism into analyses of terrorists. A relational approach that concentrates on the social relations between terrorist organizations and their members would be able to do this, however. Therefore, the article presents a formal analysis that makes the "secret society" of terrorists the lynchpin of an explanation of how terrorist organizations shape the behavioral conditions of volunteers and suicide terrorists in a manner that triggers a type of behavior we might call terrorism.
