When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …

The past decades have seen an increasing amount of intra-State wars unfold. The term ‘terrorism' has increasingly … tribunals as declaratory of customary IHL – terrorism has caused much frustration in the course of such legal determination, not … helped by the obscure facts on the ground. This article will argue that by subjectively classifying a situation as ‘terrorism …

This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and … open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …