Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we … investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country … the actual perpetrators and victims of suicide attacks. Our results do not indicate that religious cleavages are an …

counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide …

This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We … suicide attacks against Israeli targets. By exploiting spatial and time variation in house demolitions and suicide terror … attacks during the second Palestinian uprising, we show that punitive house demolitions (those targeting Palestinian suicide …

We analyze the link between economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism. While the existing empirical … literature shows that poverty and economic conditions are not correlated with the quantity of terror, theory predicts that …, higher-impact, terror missions. Using the universe of Palestinian suicide terrorists against Israeli targets between the …

Suicide bombing is one of the ugliest and the most menacing forms of terrorism plaguing Pakistan. The person blowing … himself up is merely a tool and it is not possible to devise a fool proof mechanism to fail every suicide bombing attempt … the youth of the tribal areas from where the most suicide bombers are recruited, are driven by a set of factors including …

analyzing suicide attacks. Data used in this analysis comes from The Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST). I show …This article provides an analysis and evaluation of the violence in Nigeria by focusing on suicide attacks between 2014 … that there was more than a triple surge in suicide attacks in Nigeria between 2014 and 2015. Between 2014 and 2015 the …

more than 100 incidents of Islamist terrorism. More recently, the Islamic State and Al Qaeda Indian Subcontinent have … of recent Pew survey data to exposit the determinants of popular support of Islamist terrorism. With this study, we hope …

This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We … suicide attacks against Israeli targets. By exploiting spatial and time variation in house demolitions and suicide terror … attacks during the second Palestinian uprising, we show that punitive house demolitions (those targeting Palestinian suicide …