Embedded Expertise and the New Terrorism is a journal for crime, conflict and the media written by Jonny Burnett from University of Leeds and Dave Whyte from University of Stirling. The article was written in December the year 2003. The article surveys the field of terrorism since the attack of September 11th. The article does try to assess some of the main successes, future challenges and perennial issues. The authors of the article claim that terrorism studies has matured and grown since the attack took place. Some of the successes of the attack include new dedicated researchers and scholars and the improvement of the standards of scholarships.
The study has both the independent and the dependent variables. Mainly, the independent variable is terrorism. However, the dependent variable includes the results of terrorism, the causes of terrorism and many others. The study tries to answer many questions that are related to terrorism. For instance, the article does provide a clarification of the relationship that exists between terrorism and politics. The article also does give a precise definition of the term terrorism as viewed by various scholars and researchers. The article does provide a clear definition of what is referred to as the new terrorism.
The article does include specific individuals toward the discussion about terrorism. For instance, the article explores The RAND-St Andrews Nexus. RAND gives a precise definition of what is ‘new terrorism’. The corporation does give an explicit study of the origin of the new terrorism. Additionally, the authors of the article use reporting form of data collection method. Through reporting, the authors of the article do report about the issue of terrorism. They report through the use of other researches done in relation to the issue. The data used in the article was collected in the year 2003. The article uses Opinion Based Research Methods. This is because the authors of the article provide the readers with different definition of the term new terrorism and through the comparison of the different definitions; they do come up with one uniform definition of the term new terrorism. However, the authors use data from government related agencies. For instance, RAND is an agency that is directly related to the government (Burnett, Jonny, and Dave 67).
Work cited
Burnett, Jonny, and Dave Whyte. "Embedded expertise and the new terrorism." The Guardian (2003).
