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A Game between a Terrorist and a Passive Defender

Baron, Opher; Berman, Oded; Gavious, Arieh - 2016

In the last two decades, terrorism has become a major issue around the world. We analyze a conflict between a terrorist …

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Military aid, direct intervention and counterterrorism

García-Alonso, María del Carmen; Levine, Paul; Smith, Ron - 2015

We present a model of transnational terrorism where two countries, home and foreign, face a terrorist threat based in …

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Foreign Aid as Counterterrorism Policy

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2010

against a resident transnational terrorist group. In stage 1 of the game, the donor country allocates resources to terrorism …

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When Does Terrorism Occur : Game-Theoretic Analysis and Offense-Defense Balance

Kim, Jin Yeub - 2021

challenged when it comes to making predictions about terrorism. To do so, I consider a model of continuous-time conflict between … not associated with a higher risk of terrorism. This paper supports the critics of offense-defense theory, and provides … insights into understanding when terrorism occurs …

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Self-enforcing collective counterterror retaliation

Oliveira, André L.; Silva, Emilson C. D. - In: Games 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16

Motivated by recent examples of collective effort on the war on terror, we examine the incentives that retaliation may produce for the endogenous formation of an international counterterror coalition. We show that there are quite reasonable circumstances under which any nation that is a target...

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Terrorism and Counterterrorism : History Dependence, Spillovers and Coordination Failures

Faria, Joao Ricardo; Delfino Silva, Emilson; Arce, Daniel G. - 2013

This paper is the first systematic examination of (counter)terrorism dynamic games with two types of externalities …

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Optimism and commitment : an elementary theory of bargaining and war

Ponsatí, Clara; Sanchez-Pages, Santiago - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 157-179

We propose an elementary theory of wars fought by fully rational contenders that features three of the main rationalist explanations for armed conflicts: uncertainty, commitment, and indivisibility. Two parties play a Markov game that combines stages of bargaining, where offers are made, with...

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Rational Atrocities and State Formation : A Game Theoretic Approach to the Case of ISIS

Ille, Sebastian - 2016

extends beyond the traditional constitutive elements of statehood. In particular, ISIS' rationality serves the purpose of …

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Money can't buy love but can it buy peace? : evidence from the EU programme for peace and reconciliation

Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N. - 2014

In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political landscape. Rival communities remained divided, economic performance was poor and intercommunity tensions frequently manifested. In a bid to...

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The roots of Islamist armed struggle, 1968 - 2007 : conference paper

Meierrieks, Daniel; Krieger, Tim - 2014

This contribution studies the influence of poor politico-economic factors, unfavorable demographic conditions, state failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the onset of armed Islamist activity for 155 countries...

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