Benjamin R Cole

• Societal-System Analytics and the Problem of Factionalism in Emerging (and Declining) Democracies

  Open Access•Monty G Marshall, Benjamin R Cole•ARTICLE•Social Evolution & History•2023•Referencias: 14

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  For over twenty years the U.S. Government's Political Instability Task Force (PITF; originally known as the State Failure Task Force) conducted extensive analysis and modeling of political instability and democratic transition events.The two most recent phases of this research have identified the Polity indicator of 'factionalism' (PARCOMP=3) to be the most statistically powerful, precursive condition in modeling the onsets of serious political i…

• The New Face of Terrorism

  Nadine J Gurr, Nadine Gurr et al.•BOOK•The New Face of Terrorism•2000

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  Anthrax, smallpox, sarin, blister, blood and choking agents – the list of potential weapons of mass destruction is enormous and varied. It was once thought that technological problems would prevent terrorists developing these weapons whilst moral issues would stop them using them. That has now changed. The technical and organizational sophistication of the attacks on 11th September 2001 heralds a new era in the age-old war against terrorism. Afte…

• The New Face of Terrorism

  Nadine J Gurr, Nadine Gurr et al.•BOOK•The New Face of Terrorism•2000

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  Anthrax, smallpox, sarin, blister, blood and choking agents – the list of potential weapons of mass destruction is enormous and varied. It was once thought that technological problems would prevent terrorists developing these weapons whilst moral issues would stop them using them. That has now changed. The technical and organizational sophistication of the attacks on 11th September 2001 heralds a new era in the age-old war against terrorism. Afte…

• Societal-System Analytics and the Problem of Factionalism in Emerging (and Declining) Democracies

  Open Access•Monty G Marshall, Benjamin R Cole•ARTICLE•Social Evolution & History•2023•Referencias: 14

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  For over twenty years the U.S. Government's Political Instability Task Force (PITF; originally known as the State Failure Task Force) conducted extensive analysis and modeling of political instability and democratic transition events.The two most recent phases of this research have identified the Polity indicator of 'factionalism' (PARCOMP=3) to be the most statistically powerful, precursive condition in modeling the onsets of serious political i…

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