ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses how terrorism appropriated and managed within national security discourse, using the five components of terrorism the act, the actor, definitional variations, application of meaning, and use of moral authority and how they are made visible and enacted. It addresses the issue of the terrorist actor, framed along the lines of the "uncivilized", "evil", and "inhumane" other. The image of terrorists as criminals unable to abide by the laws that govern the international community is the direct result of statist constructions which set parameters for the identity formation of terrorists as the antithesis of the state. The chapter employs unregulated violence in terrorism's performance, especially when the act is executed against civilians. Terrorism constructed between presidential rhetoric and appropriates terrorism for the maintenance of the state.
