A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the
foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In …

We provide a review of theoretical and empirical contributions on the economic analysis of
terrorism and counterterrorism. We argue that simple rational‐choice models of terrorist …

This article reviews the existing literature, mostly from political science, on suicide bombing.
A prominent weapon in the toolkit of violent nonstate actors for a generation, suicide …

How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their
operatives and enforce discipline create security vulnerabilities that governments can …

At the time, there was no single work that addressed this increasingly vexatious issue of
domestic and international security in an authoritative, yet accessible, way. My intention had …

This overview examines critically the post-9/11 empirical literature on terrorism. Major
contributions by both economists and political scientists are included. We focus on five main …

Whether upheld as heroic or reviled as terrorism, people have been willing to lay down their
lives for the sake of their groups throughout history. Why? Previous theories of extreme self …

Suicide attacks are the definitive form of terrorism. More than any other terrorist tactic, they
convey the ruthless willingness of present day terrorists to kill themselves for killing others …

Can rational models, once theological explanations are discredited, explain why certain
radical religious rebels are so successful in perpetrating suicide attacks? The fundamental …

This article relies on the variation of terror attacks across time and space as an instrument to
identify the causal effects of terrorism on the preferences of the Israeli electorate. We find …