instrument of counterterrorism as resting on the premise of a deterrence effect. Based on comparative arguments and previous …

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 …

Present anti-terrorist policy concentrates almost exclusively on deterrence. It seeks to fend off terrorism by raising … the cost of undertaking terrorist acts. This paper argues that deterrence policy is less effective than generally thought … and induces in some cases even more terrorism. This is, in particular, the case if deterrence policy induces a …

Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in actual politics and rational choice analyses of … terrorism. But there are superior strategies to deterrence. One is to make terrorist attacks less attractive. Another to raise … among the interacting parties. In contrast, the deterrence system is based on “threats” and tends to produce a negative sum …