Critical Terrorism Studies: A Brief Overview

This article focuses on the general understanding and stand points of the Critical Terrorism School which emerged with a view to understanding terrorism from a different perspective partially denying the traditional concepts and explanations of the Orthodox Terrorism Schools. This article attempts to critically examine the arguments of the Critical Terrorism Schools and the feasibility of their key arguments. In addition, a key discussion has focused on the debate whether state should be categorised as terrorist. In this article, it has been argued that state should not be categorised as terrorist and crimes committed by states should be studied as state violence. But this study corresponds to the position of the school to discuss terrorism from a critical lens. Finally, a set of interventions have been proposed for bridging the gaps between the Orthodox and Critical Terrorism Schools.