ABSTRACT

Understanding terrorism primarily as a form of opposition to the State and to the rule of Law, political science aspires to a schematic and exhaustive typology of terrorism. For the Armenians in the diaspora, there is no state that can conduct their political life for them, that can challenge, for example, Turkish misrepresentations of Armenian history, or claim the legitimate use of force. The absence of a state and a country means that there is no possibility in the diaspora for enacting a classical narrative of social revolution on either the Marxist or another model: neither Angolan revolution nor Afghan guerrilla war is possible. Under such circumstances and in the conditions that have prevailed in the Middle East since 1967, the dominant cultural narratives overdetermine conditions that help to produce terrorism and are in turn reanimated by it.