Since the bombing of New York and Washington in 2001, literature on terrorism has surge as researchers engage in theoretical perspectives in order to account for the increasing trend of terrorism in the contemporary world. However, theories from psychology, economics, sociology and other aspect of social sciences were deployed to understand the phenomenon and to formulate appropriate policy response. A review of the evidence indicates that despite the contributions of these theories, intellectual puzzles as to why do ‘terrorist’ do what they do; and class dimension of terrorism have either not been adequately addressed or escape scholarly attention. These knowledge gaps show that new possibilities are opening up, and scholars are yet to take on this new dimension of terrorism. The paper concludes that further research on the aforementioned gap is needed as far as the future of terrorism studies is concerned.
Terrorism, theory, policy, interest
