ABSTRACT
The phenomenon of terrorism escalated in the 1970s, it attracted increased attention from government officials and scholars. In reviewing the report of 1980 conference, author noted that its participants did make some forecasts regarding the future course of terrorism that held up pretty well in the last two decades of the twentieth century. The focus of the 1980 conference was international terrorism, rather than domestic terrorism. The gap between the world's wealthy and its poor did not spawn a wave of terrorism, as analysts in 1980 people can speculate on whether the current demonstrations against globalization may ultimately give rise to more violent actions. As long as people believe that the upper limits of terrorism are represented roughly by the level of destruction they saw in Oklahoma City, as terrible and tragic as that event was. However, researchers were not able to identify root causes of terrorism or terrorist prone pathologies, and over time that line of inquiry was abandoned.
