PSY620 Grand Canyon University Domestic And International Terrorism Paper

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Choose two domestic and two international terrorist organizations from the government lists of terrorist organizations. In 750-1,000 words, describe the following:

  1. Describe the ideological foundations of each of the groups.
  2. Describe the modus operandi of each group and their most recent acts of terror.
  3. Explain how the motivations and tactics differ between the domestic and the
    international terrorist groups you chose.

Use three to four scholarly resources to support your explanations.

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Running Head: DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

Domestic And International Terrorism
Institutional Affiliation
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Definitions
Universally, there is no agreed definition of terrorism. However, the U.S government defines
terrorism as premeditated and violence that is motivated politically against targets that are noncombatants by clandestine agents and or sub-national groups. Terrorist organizations are defined
as those organizations that have been found to have direct and or indirect engagement in the
preparation, assistance, planning and the fostering of the acts of terrorism by a court or an
organization that the government lists as an organization of terrorism by the government
regulations. Terrorism can be classified as either domestic or international and these
classifications are based on the area of coverage of the terrorist organization. International
terrorism is carried out by groups and or individuals whose associations are linked with foreign
organizations of terrorists while domestic terrorism is carried out by groups or individuals in
association with U.S based organizations (Berkebile, 2017).

Domestic groups of terror in the U.S include;
i.

Vanguard America (VA)

ii.

Identity Evropa (IE)

i.

Vanguard America (VA)

Vanguard America (VA) Ideological Foundations
Vanguard America (VA) is a U.S based white supremacist grouping which opposes
multiculturalism in the U.S by believing that it should be a white nation exclusively. This group
has a nationalist slogan “Blood & Soil” and this brings the notion that the white blooded people

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have a bond with the soil of America. This slogan was adopted form Germany’s Hitler’s regime
that used Blut und Boden. In addition to the slogan, VA also used a manifesto that only
European Christians can be allowed to live in the U.S and that the other races, religions, and
ethnics are not compatible and worth of the original culture of the U.S. and therefore measures to
segregate them should be adopted for the continuation of the nation (ADL, n.d).
Modus Operandi of VA
The op...


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