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- Title
To Kill Hope? In Search of a Reliable Strategy to Fight Terrorism.
- Authors
Yanovskiy, Moshe; Ginker, Tim; Zatcovetsky, Ilia; Zhavoronkov, Sergei
- Abstract
Israeli history offers no reasonable basis to expect that terrorists will be appeased by concessions of any kind, whether the transfer of funds or the ceding of territory to terrorist control. Neither statistics nor the studies of particular cases support such a hypothesis. The immediate and most obvious criterion of success for belligerents is the control of new territory and its population, which allows terrorists freedom of movement, with opportunities to try new terrorist technologies and take the initiative. Loss of land and population, humiliating defeat, or ostentatious display of triumph by the enemy, in contrast, discourages terrorist leaders and even suicide bombers. In the case of defeat, the perpetrators lose principal components of the posthumous reward: glorification and income for their families. Factual instances and statistical data analysis provide evidence for the hypothesis that terrorism is best suppressed by force.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; ISRAELI history, 1993-; TERRORISTS; TERRORISM; TERRORISM financing; PRINCIPAL components analysis
- Publication
Jewish Political Studies Review, 2018, Vol 29, Issue 1/2, p27
- ISSN
0792-335X
- Publication type
Article