Terrorism. The 2008 Mumbai Attacks

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 1.0, Leiden University, course: Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Comparing Theory and Practice, language: English, abstract: There are multiple concerns regarding terrorism and its definition in the modern world. According to Schmid, terrorism has several elements namely, the intent to arouse anxiety, harm civilians, achieve political gains and the main perpetrators being clandestine groups. In this essay, the author tries to establish if the Mumbai attack demonstrated an act of terrorism or not.