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over a two-state solution to the conflict as well as the organizational structures of the factions. -- Intifada ; terrorism … ; conflict resolution ; bargaining ; violence …In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian …
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support that notion. -- Intifada ; terrorism ; Granger causality …This paper studies the dynamics of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since the outbreak of the Second (or … "Al-Aqsa") Intifada in September 2000, during which more than 3,300 Palestinians and more than 1,000 Israelis have been …
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In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian … factions and that committed by Israel during the Second Intifada. We find a statistically significant relationship between … Palestinian factions. We conjecture that these differences are due to the different positions of the factions vis-à-vis bargaining …
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The U.S. military has been criticized for its failure to stop the Iraqi insurgency’s use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which have caused most of the Coalition casualties. We use an instrumental variables approach to estimate the insurgent responses to U.S. military countermeasures....
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Coalition offensive operations in Iraq seek to disrupt insurgents and their networks, but may also act as a recruitment tool for the insurgency. We use data from Coalition press releases and casualty reports to assess the total impact of these operations. We find that two additional offensive...
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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 …
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insecurity and experiencing violence. Our study is based on surveys conducted by the Asia Foundation from 2014 to 2021 across 34 … income and happiness. Additionally, we find a negative association between fear of insecurity, experiencing violence, and … have experienced violence, the probability of having a high level of happiness declines by about 3.8% points when compared …
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We treat government concessions as additions to an expected payoffs schedule rather than as being synonymous with it. Government concessions that add to terrorists' expected payoffs past some point on a positively sloped risk-reward trade-off schedule will not make all terrorists more risk...
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What explains the variation in terrorism within and across political regimes? We contend that terrorism is most likely … judiciaries make government commitments more credible, thereby providing less incentive for the use of terrorism. Using a recently … analyses appropriate for the challenges of terrorism data and then examine the robustness of the results. The results provide …
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In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict …
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