Determinants of International Terrorist Group Formation, 1968-1999

Terrorism has become a focus of much political thought over the past few years, and with good reason, yet most quantitative studies 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. This is done by Poisson regression analysis, which determines the significance of the independent variables on a count of new international terrorist group formations per country year. The results indicate that higher levels of material government capability, high levels of political freedom, the availability of low-cost refuge, and a cultural tradition of terrorism all have a positive impact on the number of new terrorist group formations, while a higher degree of governmental durability has a negative impact.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2007

Author dc:creator

• Worrell, Blake

Contributors dc:contributor

• Greig, Michael
• Enterline, Andrew J.
• Eshbaugh-Soha, Matthew

• terrorism
• groups
• international
• formation
• societal factors
• Terrorists.
• Terrorism -- History -- 20th century.
• Terrorism -- Cuases.

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Worrell, Blake
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 229095997
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5107/
ark: ark:/67531/metadc5107

OAI identifier oai:identifier

info:ark/67531/metadc5107