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model. The authors close by discussing the utility of this model for understanding terrorism and the behavior of terrorist …
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The authors examine the effect of educational attainment and income on support for suicide bombing among Muslim publics in six predominantly Muslim countries that have experienced suicide bombings: Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, and Turkey. The authors make two contributions....
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consequences for the organization’s evolution. The organization can engage in short-term attacks planned and executed in a single … cause more damage if successful. Successful attacks increase the organization’s size; in addition, the organization has a … strategies and explore their implications for the growth of the organization. The authors identify a set of strategic regimes …
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This article presents a theoretical framework and some empirical results showing that the level of foreign aid received reduces the supply of terrorist attacks from recipient countries, while U.S. military interventions are liable to increase this supply. Due account is taken of endogeneity...
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Political actors sometimes make public commitments not to negotiate with adversaries whom they label as being beneath diplomacy. Such commitments are sometimes made even as they are being broken. Why do actors sometimes publicly denounce adversaries with whom they intend to negotiate? What...
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This article aims to improve scholars’ understanding of how transnational terrorist organizations emerge, survive, thrive, and eventually die.The authors use a data set that catalogues terrorist organizations and their attacks over time (the ITERATE database of thousands of terrorist...
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This article empirically analyzes the effects of terrorism on the electoral choices of the Turkish voters in the 1991 … soldiers and police officers who died in the fight against the terrorist organization PKK. The author uses the number of these … security force terror casualties at the district level as a measure of the level of terrorism that the people of that district …
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Existing scholarly research on terrorism has largely ignored the role of international relations and its effects on … patterns of terrorism. This study argues that strategic interstate relationships can affect the amount of terrorism that a … state experiences and should be considered along with “traditional” determinants of terrorism, such as domestic …
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A consumer-choice theoretical model is developed to test the regional effects of terrorism on competitors' market … January 1991 to December 2000, results show significant own and spillover effects of terrorism on market shares. Terrorist … incidents are decomposed to better identify the impacts of terrorism on tourism. Significant contagion effects of terrorism on …
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This article argues that social welfare policies may reduce international and domestic terrorism. Social policies … likely affect terrorism in offsetting ways but, on balance, should diminish preferences for terrorism by reducing economic … suffer fewer terrorist attacks on their soil and have fewer of their citizens perpetrate terrorism. Supporting this argument …
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