ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to define terrorism and examines the various social theories of terrorism and how they contribute to the development of the different types of terrorism. It explores how these theories might help develop an estimation of what the terrorism will look like in the future so that effect policy and strategies to counter terrorism can be developed. Many of the early research on terrorism causation centered on the idea that terrorists were psychological deviants, or were driven to join the social movements of terrorism due to deeply entrenched systemic inequalities. One of the major criticisms levied against Westerners trying study terrorism is that their viewpoints tend to be antagonistic, and they don't tend to empathize or attempt to understand cultural-specific identity or culturally specific viewpoints held by the terrorist.
