POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

How does exposure to indirect, cyber mediated terrorism reshape political aggression within democracies? While extensive research documents the political consequences of direct terrorism, far less is known about how cyber-mediated indirect exposure influences attitudes toward domestic political actors. We argue that cyber exposure does not merely heighten fear or generalized threat perception; rather, it can redirec…

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Book · DOAB

This report builds on earlier RAND research that used qualitative conceptual causal models called “factor trees” to identify the factors that contribute to aspects of terrorism or insurgency and how the factors relate to each other. This report goes beyond the qualitative by specifying a prototype computational social-science model of public support for terrorism and insurgency. The model illustrates designing for r…

Full text · Open Library

While there is no easy way to define terrorism, it may generally be viewed as a method of violence in which civilians are targeted with the objective of forcing a perceived enemy into submission by creating fear, demoralization, and political friction in the population under attack. At one time a marginal field of study in the social sciences, terrorism is now very much in center stage. The 1970s terrorist attacks b…

Image · DPLA

Since 2001, the rate of global suicide attacks per year has been increasing at a shocking rate. The 1980s averaged 4.7 suicide attacks per year, the 1990s averaged 16 attacks per year, and from 2000-2005 the average jumped to 180 per year. What is the cause behind these suicide attacks? The literature has been dominated by psychological, social, strategic, and religious explanations. However, no one explanation has …