CAUSES OF CROSS-BORDER TERRORISM

CAUSES OF CROSS-BORDER TERRORISM

The strategy of using terror as a tool of achieving political goal is called terrorism.There are five important causes of cross-border or trans-national terrorism in sociological analysis.These are given below-      
  1.The revolution of rising expectations that creates a ground of relative deprivation,disenchantment and alienation from the organised state which tends to create a fertile ground for terrorism to operate   2.Ideology,especially extremist religious ideology,as the driving force for armed violence                   3.Phenomenal spread and diffusion of small arms, light weapons which has made lethal weaponry more easily accessible for armed violence                                                                                                 4.Transmutation of conflict which has transformed classical concept of regular war(state-to-state) as an instrument of policy to use armed violence and irregular war as continuation of politics by other means                                                                                                                                                          5.Doctrines that legitimize targeting civil population with violence as a means to achieve political and military objective