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The concept of networks has become synonymous with terrorism in recent years. Despite the abundance of material …
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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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This article empirically analyzes the effects of terrorism on the electoral choices of the Turkish voters in the 1991 … security force terror casualties at the district level as a measure of the level of terrorism that the people of that district … have been exposed to and analyzes whether and how exposure to terrorism affects people’s electoral choices. The results …
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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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data set of domestic terrorism created from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) for the years 1970 to 1997. I find support … for the hypothesis that competition leads to more terrorism, validating the claims of outbidding theorists. Furthermore … competition with more terrorism and left-wing organizations responding with less. …
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Does exposure to terrorism lead to hostility toward minorities? Drawing on theories from clinical and social psychology … political scholarship—and threat perceptions mediate the relationship between exposure to terrorism and attitudes toward … six-month intervals. Structural Equation Modeling indicated that exposure to terrorism predicted psychological distress (t …
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A model is developed to provide a basis for investigating the nature of faction behavior and the interrelationships between factions and between factions and their supporters under conditions of competition and cooperation. A general finding of the study illustrates the fact that when factions...
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This article establishes the prevalence of deterrence over preemption when targeted governments can choose between either policies or employ both. There is a similar proclivity to favor defensive counter-terrorist measures over proactive policies. Unfortunately, this predisposition results in an...
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. Alternatively, in both countries, approval of terrorism against the United States is disproportionately likely among men and women … that approval of terrorism is fostered by negative attitudes toward actors considered responsible for the political and … economic status quo. Given that Algeria and Jordan have had different experiences with respect to terrorism and also differ in …
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