ABSTRACT
The roots of modern terrorism appear to lie largely in the rising tide of student and radical unrest so evident in most nations of the world during the early 1960s. National in composition, political orientation, and scope of operations, the "national" terrorist groups are epitomized by organizations such as the Armed Proletarian Nuclei and the Red Brigades in Italy. In the late 1960s, terrorist group activities took a quantum leap from those purely national in scope to those involving operations across national boundaries, virtually anywhere in the world, often at great distance from the terrorists' homelands. Cooperation among terrorist cadres in West Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and Latin America also is a matter of record. Among national and transnational terrorist groups, the most crucial area of cooperation is in the training sector. Despite occasional setbacks, the appeal of contemporary terrorist activity accounting for its continued widespread use is quite simply its apparent success.
