Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in politics and in rational choice analyses of … terrorism. However, there are two strategies that are superior to deterrence. The first one is to make terrorist attacks less …

This paper develops a theory of political violence that is based on the rationality of individual agents. Violence is …

This chapter surveys the past applications of game theory to the study of terrorism. By capturing the strategic … interplay between terrorists and targeted governments, game theory is an appropriate methodology for investigating terrorism and … indicates novel directions for applying game theory to terrorism-related issues (e.g., cooperative collectives to strengthen …

We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three … most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i … citizens of a particular country in a given year. -- causes of terrorism ; poverty and terrorism ; panel estimations ; extreme …

examine several prominent cases including Algerian terrorism, Al-Qa`ida, the Taliban, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the …