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Showing 1 to 20 of 523 for “"terrorist"”.
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Terrorist Safe Havens: Towards an Understanding of What They Accomplish for Terrorist Organizations
How do safe havens help facilitate a militant terrorist organization's activities and operations? This study expects to find that safe havens do matter, that they provide safety, training, rest, etc. The researcher presumes that without safe havens, many of the operations that these organizations …
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On Terrorist Attacks and Estimation Methods
In my thesis I propose a theoretical model of terrorist attacks and anestimation strategy which I compare to existing methods in the literature. The modeling approach was designed with terrorism in mind, but can be applied to other discrete dynamic decision processes with a latent component and a …
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A Conceptual Map for Understanding the Terrorist Recruitment Process: Observation and Analysis of Turkish Hezbollah Terrorist Organizations.
… of terrorism, and the recruitment style of terrorist organizations If terrorist recruitment does not stop, then it is safe to say terrorist activities cannot be stopped. This study focused on the recruitment process by observing two different terrorist organizations, DHKP/C and Turkish …
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An Analysis of Terrorist Recruitment by Observing DHKP/C (Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front) Terrorist Organization in Turkey
… research analyzed the recruitment process of terrorists by studying the DHKP/C terrorist organization and by answering the following questions. The first is "What factors are correlated with joining a terrorist organization?" And the second is "What is the recruitment process of the DHKP/C?" …
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Civilizational Jihad: The Implications of Terrorist Strategy
… self-proclaimed doctrinal motivation of Muslim terrorists. This paper argues that the proper approach of America toward terrorism is not to dissociate Islamist terrorists from their civilizational grounding but to consider them organic to it, different from the majority of its adherents not in …
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Terrorist Kidnappings for Ransom: Explaining Hostage Outcomes
… The recent American deaths at the hands of terrorist groups have brought kidnapping and ransom policy to the forefront of the American psyche. In an effort to understand why hostages are released or killed in situations where a ransom is asked, we attempt to isolate and test key variables …
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Investigating the efficacy of terrorist network visualizations
… new intelligence paradigm is network analysis of terrorist organizations. This area of intelligence analysis uses mostly commercially available software applications to leverage the powers of social network theory against large terrorism data sets. An additional challenge is the fast paced …
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Evaluating strategies for countering nuclear-armed terrorist groups
… the United States is vulnerable to attack from terrorists armed with weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Depending on the circumstances, a terrorist attack with nuclear or radiological weapons could cause more destruction and casualties than one with other types of WMD. Four strategies for …
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Determinants of International Terrorist Group Formation, 1968-1999
… of terrorism investigate the likelihood of a terrorist incident while ignoring the precursors to terrorist group formation. I examine cases of new terrorist group formations between the years 1968 and 1999 as a function of domestic demographic, geographic, governmental and societal factors. …
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Design of bridges for security against terrorist attacks
… attention on determining vulnerabilities to terrorist attack. One such vulnerability that has received consideration is the threat of terrorist action against a transportation target. This report summarizes results of research to investigate cost effective measures to improve bridge security …
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Jihad in Cyberspace and Tomorrow's Cyber-Terrorist Attack
<p>This thesis explores how jihadi terrorists are exploiting the cyberspace, specifically the internet, through jihad. The beginning of the thesis explores the denotation of the term jihad and an understanding of it as stated in the Qur'an. After acknowledging that cyber-terrorism is a very …
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Government Communication and Terrorist Organizations: Towards a Concept of “Crisis Communication” in reaction to 21st Century Islamic Terrorist Attacks for Western Governments
… the threat of terrorism, the nature of terrorist activities and their impact on their populations? The main goal behind answering this question is to find out how statements after the most significant Islamic terrorist threats and attacks were influenced by and did influence the …
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Managing asymmetric threats to national security - terrorist information operations
… security from the information operations of terrorist groups and their use of such to conduct Information warfare. This is because personal observations and discussion with those operating In the national security arena alert to the need for research into this area. The reasoning examined …
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Suppression of terrorist financing: over-criminalization through international law
… develop an internationally harmonized counter-terrorist financing regime through international treaties, soft laws and Security Council resolutions, and to diffuse this regime into domestic laws. Aimed at preventing terrorism, this regime has introduced two types of measures: financial measures …
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Power or progress: What terrorist group leaders really want
<p>This paper examines how the different goals of terrorist group leaders affect their decision making calculus. This study uses a formal model and shows that terrorist group leaders who are more concerned with gaining concessions from the government are likely to use lower levels of violence. The …
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Ecology of Terrorism: Cross-National Comparison of Terrorist Attacks
… behaviors conducted by a wide variety of groups. Terrorist groups differ in ideology, size, financial support, group longevity, and the number of alliances with other terrorist groups. Relatedly, terrorist groups conduct different number of attacks with varying intents to cause fatalities using …
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WHO SUPPORTS TERRORISM? A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TERRORIST RESOURCE NETWORKS
Studies on civilian support for terrorist groups are limited in what they are able to say about why some terrorist groups have high civilian support while others do not. Most of these studies have focused on resource provision, overlooking the fact that it is only a strategy to extract resources in …
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Nuclear Smuggling in a Terrorist Midget Submarine: Impeding the Operation
<p>Who expected terrorists to fly airplanes into buildings? Seeking to get ahead of terrorists' scheming, this thesis examines when and how terrorists, on acquiring a nuclear device, might choose to deliver it against the United States in a midget submarine (or SSM, as the U.S. Navy designates it). …
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America the Vulnerable: Terrorist Threats Using Biological and Chemical Weapons
… events of September 11th have shown that Islamic terrorist groups have the means and the will to inflict substantial damage to the United States. This thesis sought to determine the threat posed by terrorists using biological and chemical weapons. The evidence provided in this thesis has …
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