physical or social processes, understanding is enhanced when we know how the pieces fit together. Suicide terrorism is one … insights on the problem.This article examines an influential theory of suicide attacker motivations, the Significance Quest … capitalism. After describing the relationship between death anxiety and suicide terrorism generally, the paper concludes by …

to predict what determines the targets of suicide attacks, using Israel as a sample, we created a database that coded for …

Using half-yearly data from 1991 to 2003, we analyze the incidents of suicide attacks by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic … indicate that the two groups deliberately use suicide bombings as strategic weapons within the larger Israeli …

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 …

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 …

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth …

determined by her reproductive type and the amount of resources she can access. We introduce the possibility of suicide and … that populations where suicide is possible grow faster than other populations. …