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alternative targets. For transnational terrorism, dilemmas also arise when counterterrorism is investigated for continuous choice …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 …
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multiple target countries, and considers both pre-emption and deterrence as counterterrorist policies. The damage from terror …-effect leads to different kinds of equilibria and implications for counter-terrorism policies. In particular, the model identifies … conditions under which greater pre-emption may be the rational response to an increase in terrorism, i.e., it analyzes the merit …
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reducing terrorism. The leader changes in the two cases, with the weaker player going first to the advantage of both players …
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This paper studies the interaction between a governmental security agency, as the Transportation Security Agency, or the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and a terrorist organization, like Al Qaeda. The governmental agency wants to stop the terrorists, but first must infer whether a visa...
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This paper investigates the interplay of trade and terrorism externalities under free trade between a developed nation … targets both nations and reduces its attacks in response to a nation's defensive counterterrorism efforts, while transferring … some of its attacks abroad. Terms-of-trade considerations lead the developed nation to raise its counterterrorism level …
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