ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we outline the history of terrorism scholarship in IR. It developed in the 1970s as a separate subfield and became more popular throughout the 1980s. However, it was the events of September 11, 2001 in New York that led to a growth of scholarship on terrorism. Despite this growth, much of TS remains focused in countering so-called terrorism, providing policy advice to governments and is definitionally limited in that it considers terrorism an act performed by non-state actors. These drawbacks of mainstream TS parallel the limitations of security studies during that subfield's development. In the second section of this chapter, we draw upon critical approaches to security to outline some ways in which CTS could proceed. In doing this, we argue that the diversity of CSS is not a drawback but indicates a thriving subfield, something that CTS could emulate.
