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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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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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democratic reforms and economic development while often advocated countering Islamist violence appear to be rather ineffective …
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organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the … violence. By combining different data sources and implementing a new approach to deal with potential double-counting, we … provide a proxy for counter-insurgency efforts by the government. We show that the increase in violence is primarily driven by …
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