political, and cultural causes for terrorism asecond place at best. I analyze thisdiscourse as it operates in different fields, from the speeches and writings ofstatesmen/women to psychology and feminism. The effects of psychologization are linked to global power and racism,suggesting that an understanding of terrorism does not happen in this dominantdiscourse on terrorism in the West in great part because of these culturally aswell as politically ingrained thoughts and acts. It is demonstrated that the dominantdiscourse within Western statesmen/women tends to interpret terrorism as auniversal concept, by generalizing it to the most different political and historicalrealities, and that terrorism in this sense has been functioning in the sameway that communism functioned as a term in the past: as a call to wipe outindividuals and groups. In a veryrelated manner, the term terrorist has been used as a universal concept thatserves to locate the problem in a single person or a group, only in order topropose a seemingly agreed-upon solution: annihilation of the terrorist,someone without a history or any value. Onanother trend, I discuss American expert knowledge on terrorism and how it has helpedto deconstruct moralistic notions of the issue, thereby partially challengingthe dominant discourse. However, I arguethat this knowledge also needs to be analyzed in its claims to the truth ofcauses of terrorism. One of these truthclaims is to terrorism as Strategy, so I analyze here Strategy as a discursivepractice of this expert knowledge, and its effects. Due to the culturaldominance of these discourses, they are effective in making people align withtheir proposals. This work therefore showsthat cultural discourses on terrorism and terrorists play an important role inreproducing violence worldwide that must be tackled with in research and actionthat is preoccupied with peace and cultural understanding.Keywords: Psychologization of terrorists;State terrorism; Causes of terrorism; Experts on terrorism; Discourse onterrorism..Introduction What causesterrorism? This question is not examinedthoroughly in the Western worlds dominant society. When it is, a few answers are given, with fewor no historical contexts to sustain them. These answers, I hope to show, have a cultural dimension which not onlymarks them as Western, but also, accordingly, explains their hegemony. This essay starts witha recent history already known. Atleast, known to those who have had access to its facts or wanted to believethem. The facts presented here about therecent history of terrorism were strategically chosen in order to prove whatwill be argued at the last section of the essay: that terrorism and terroristsare concepts used in the West dominantly as a way to label groups andindividuals by power. The dominantdiscourse in the West on this subject frames the issue around the universalityand essentialism of terrorism and terrorists. It is as if history is only the particular appearance of this universal,which can be recognized by the specialist or the men/women in State power. But before I go any further, some of thosehistorical facts must be accepted in order for my wider arguments to be aswell. The rise of the modern nation-StateNation-States depend on the construction of a History, which under feministcritique has been termed His-story. Thisunified History, a product of the Enlightenment and its