State-sponsored terrorism (Topical Term)
- Government violence
- Governmental violence
- State-sponsored violence
- State terrorism
- Violence, Governmental
- Violence, State-sponsored
- Broader heading: Political atrocities
- Broader heading: Terrorism
Work cat.: Terrorismo de estado, 1986.
LC database, Aug. 9, 1991 (State-sponsored terrorism; state terrorism)
Nat. crim. just. thes. (State sponsored terrorism)
State-sponsored terrorism, 1985: p. xviii (The deliberate employment of violence or the threat of use of violence by sovereign states (or sub-national groups encouraged or assisted by sovereign states) to attain strategic and political objectives by acts in violation of law intended to create overwhelming fear in a target population larger than the civilian or military victims attacked or threatened.)
Thackrah, J.R. Encyc. of terrorism and political violence, 1987: p. 237 (hdg.: State-sponsored terrorism; also uses state terrorism)
The State as terrorist : the dynamics of governmental violence and repression, 1984 : p. 3 (use of violence, repression, and terrorism by the state in the pursuit of domestic and international interests)
Stohl, M. The state as terrorist : the dynamics of governmental violence and repression, c1984.
Web. 3; Random House; ERIC thes.; SSCI
When subdivided by place, the name of the place may designate either the place where the terrorism occurred, or the state that was the sponsor.