For years, scholars have claimed that suicide terrorists are not suicidal, but rather
psychologically normal individuals inspired to sacrifice their lives for an ideological cause …

The US claim that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was a necessary component of the
war on terror has been roundly criticized in both popular and scholarly discourse, while …

The Political Economy of Terrorism presents a widely accessible political economy
approach to the study of terrorism. It applies economic methodology–theoretical and …

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 …

How can people who lack access to effective government institutions establish property
rights and facilitate exchange? The illegal narcotics trade in Los Angeles has flourished …

This paper challenges conventional views of violent religious extremism, particularly those
that emphasize militant theology. We offer an alternative analysis that helps explain the …

Studies of terrorism in general and suicide terrorism in particular tend to view terrorist groups
independently. However, what if the propensity for a terrorist group to adopt suicide tactics …

This paper examines whether terrorism is an effective tool for achieving political goals. By
exploiting geographic variation in terror attacks in Israel from 1988 to 2006, we show that …

This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior and uses
it to analyze the forces shaping the life cycle of violent political movements. This new edition …