ABSTRACT
ALTHOUGH TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS ARE NONSTATE ACTORS, some of them are generously sponsored or partially supported by the governments of nation-states. Decision-makers in target countries emphasize the complicity of governments because it is easier to threaten and punish state sponsors than terrorist organizations. Just as governments in the Eastern Bloc and Soviet client states elsewhere sponsored anti-Western terrorism during the Cold War (see Chapter 3), state support has remained an important factor in bolstering terrorists and their deeds.
