Determinants of International Terrorist Group Formation, 1968-1999
Description:
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 significa…
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Date:
December 2007
Creator:
Worrell, Blake
Partner:
UNT Libraries