Michael Stohl
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 285018 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Stohl |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Stohl |
| FIRMA | STOHL M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0187-3287 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 335 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 8 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The Politics of Terrorism
The Politics of Terrorism
Introduction Michael Stohl Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Political Terrorism Some Characteristics of Political Terrorism in the 1960's Ted Robert Gurr The Urban Context of Political Terrorism P. N. Grabosky Political Disintegration and Latent Terror Peter R. Knauss and D. A. Strickland Societal Structure and Revolutionary Terrorism: A Preliminary Investigation Harry R. Targ The Theoretical Utility of Typologies of Terrorism: Lessons and …
A Research Agenda for Human Rights
Constructions of Terrorism
Discussions about the meaning of terrorism are enduring in everyday language, government policy, news reporting, and international politics. And disagreements about both the definition and the class of violent events that constitute terrorism contribute to the difficulty of formulating effective responses aimed at the prevention and management of the threat of terrorism and the development of counterterrorism policies. Constructions of Terrorism …
Introduction
Since the attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent responses to them scholars have charted and debated how those attacks altered our understanding of terrorism and counterterrorism and the world in which
Discourses on countering violent extremism
Research on terrorism has always gravitated around qualitative methods and statistical techniques. Technology plays an essential role in terrorism and counterterrorism analysis by providing collections of large databases in many fields and the computational power to analyze them. Machine learning has shown new methods that could complement standard and well-established methodological approaches. This work contributes to the bridging of machine le…
There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence – a noun, a verb and 9/11”
In the years since 11 September 2001, pundits, politicians and scholars of terrorism and international relations routinely have declared that 9/11 “changed everything”. This article explores not only how those decisions transformed the United States and the global response to terrorism, but also how both the decisions and response sustained a sense of fear. Further, they made possible, to paraphrase then candidate Joseph Biden’s critique of forme…
States and Peoples in Conflict
This volume evaluates the state of the art in conflict studies. Original chapters by leading scholars survey theoretical and empirical research on the origins, processes, patterns, and consequences of most forms and contexts of political conflict, protest, repression, and rebellion. Contributors examine key pillars of conflict studies, including civil war, religious conflict, ethnic conflict, transnational conflict, terrorism, revolution, genocid…
Who Goes, Why, and With What Effects
This article explores the phenomenon of Islamist foreign fighters, more specifically the movement of European Muslims to participate in the insurgencies in Syria and Iraq connected to the Islamic State/Daesh as well as the anti-Assad forces in Syria and the implications for European state stability. Drawing on personal psychology, social psychology, and social movement theory the article offers an integrated theoretical framework to analyze the r…
States and Peoples in Conflict
Expanding Human Rights
Who Goes, Why, and With What Effects
This article explores the phenomenon of Islamist foreign fighters, more specifically the movement of European Muslims to participate in the insurgencies in Syria and Iraq connected to the Islamic State/Daesh as well as the anti-Assad forces in Syria and the implications for European state stability. Drawing on personal psychology, social psychology, and social movement theory the article offers an integrated theoretical framework to analyze the r…
Don't confuse me with the facts
It became commonplace after 11 September 2001 to declare that the events changed ‘everything’ and that the world would never again be as it was before that date. Many spoke of the dividing line of the pre-9/11 and post-9/11 world, and it became commonplace to assert that the events conclusively demonstrated the validity of the thesis that there was a ‘new’ terrorism, at base religious and apocalyptic, more networked rather than hierarchical and v…
On-screen Muslims
Given consistent findings concerning the media’s effect on shaping attitudes related to minority groups, it is important to understand the impact of the common anti Muslim portrayals currently appearing in many facets of US media. The current study implements an experimental design with five conditions (negative hard news, positive hard news, negative entertainment, negative comedy news and the control) and two dependent variables (support for id…
Media Framing of Terrorism
This study presents experimental findings on the impact of media framing of the 2005 London bombings. A total of 371 American participants were exposed to one of two frames to test their effect on public attitudes towards civil liberties and Muslims, and support for counterterrorism policies. Results show that the “domestic homegrown” frame produces greater increases in fear than the “international” frame. This leads to greater support for restri…
Crime and Terrorism
Veteran researchers Grabosky and Stohl draw on organised crime to illuminate the neglected terrain between terrorism and more ordinary forms of illegal behaviour
Old myths, new fantasies and the enduring realities of terrorism
Keywords: knowledge claimsmythsfantasiesmedianetworksSeptember 11al-Qaedacounter-terrorismcommunication
Networks of Terror
Journal Article Networks of Terror: Theoretical Assumptions and Pragmatic Consequences Get access Cynthia Stohl, Cynthia Stohl 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Stohl Michael Stohl 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
Swamps, Hot Spots, Dick Cheney and the Internationalization of Terrorist Campaigns
The opportunity to introduce the four articles in this special issue and to reflect on their meaning and contribution is most welcome. Lai’s “Draining the Swamp ” examines the ability of a state to impose costs on terrorist groups by examining the relationship between states ’ strength and the generation of terror, Braithwaite’s and Li’s “Transnational Terrorism Hot Spots ” employs local spatial statistics to identify terrorism hot spot neighborh…
The State as Terrorist
A common response by policy makers, scholars, and the public following September 11 was to declare that everything was different now and the world would never be the same again. In many important w
Is the Past Prologue? Terrorists and WMD
In the years immediately before and certainly after September 11, many scholarly and policy analyses have focused on the causes and consequences of the “new terrorism.” These analyses have suggested that the new terrorism is caused by the emergence of “religious” and “millearian” terrorists in contrast to the “political” terrorists who dominated the “old terrorism” (see, for example, Lesser et al. 1999; Morgan 2004) and that the consequence is gr…
Images of Terror
United States Human Rights Policy and Foreign Assistance
This study furthers the inquiry into the relationship between human rights and U.S. bilateral foreign aid. We build the most comprehensive data set to date, extending the time period (1976–1995) and enlarging the number of countries under review (140). Rhetoric aside, human rights considerations did play a role in determining whether or not a state received military aid during the Reagan and Bush administrations, but not for the Carter or Clinton…
Digital Age| The Management of Visibilities in the Digital Age — Introduction
What we see, what we show and how we look are fundamental organizational concerns made ever more salient by the affordances, dynamics, and discourses of the digital age. Contemporary organizing practices are awash with material, mediated and managed visibilities: companies erect glass buildings with open and networked office spaces to efficiently share information, respond to stakeholder demands by crafting extensive transparency policies, and or…
The Management of Visibilities in the Digital Age
What we see, what we show and how we look are fundamental organizational concerns made ever more salient by the affordances, dynamics, and discourses of the digital age. Contemporary organizing practices are awash with material, mediated and managed visibilities: companies erect glass buildings with open and networked office spaces to efficiently share information, respond to stakeholder demands by crafting extensive transparency policies, and or…
United States Human Rights Policy and Foreign Assistance
This study furthers the inquiry into the relationship between human rights and U.S. bilateral foreign aid. We build the most comprehensive data set to date, extending the time period (1976–1995) and enlarging the number of countries under review (140). Rhetoric aside, human rights considerations did play a role in determining whether or not a state received military aid during the Reagan and Bush administrations, but not for the Carter or Clinton…
The Foreign Policy of Human Rights
Throughout the 1980 presidential campaign, candidate Reagan clearly and sharply criticized the Carter human rights policy, arguing that it was morally unsound, ineffective, and threatening to United States' security interests.' According to the Reagan view, the policy was morally tenuous because it created a double standard, condemning minor human rights violators while overlooking major offenders. It was considered ineffective because it actuall…
Government Violence and Repression
The Role of Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Assistance Policy
In a recent study, David Cingranelli and Thomas Pasquarello (1985) discovered a modest positive relationship between certain types of U.S. foreign assistance and human rights behavior. We believe a number of factors raise concerns over the validity of these results. Following some discussion, a brief and simplified reanalysis is presented, which varies the cases, economic data, and human rights measures employed by Cingranelli and Pasquarello. Th…
State Violation of Human Rights
Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Assistance from Nixon to Carter
This paper reports some preliminary findings on the relationships between United States policies towards human rights as it is expressed in Presidential policy and U.S. military and economic assistance to nations which have a substantial record of human rights threats and abuses. It examines these relationships from the start of the Nixon presidency through the end of the Carter administration. The statistical findings indicate that under Preside…
War and Domestic Political Violence
This paper is concerned with the indirect systemic linkages whereby conflict at one level (in this case war involvement) generates systemic changes at the domestic level, which in turn alter the character of conflict at that level. To evaluate these linkages, I examine the changes in the magnitude and intensity of economic, social, and political violence in the domestic system that occur before, during, and after war involvement. Data have been c…
Networks of Terror
Journal Article Networks of Terror: Theoretical Assumptions and Pragmatic Consequences Get access Cynthia Stohl, Cynthia Stohl 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Stohl Michael Stohl 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
Who Goes, Why, and With What Effects
This article explores the phenomenon of Islamist foreign fighters, more specifically the movement of European Muslims to participate in the insurgencies in Syria and Iraq connected to the Islamic State/Daesh as well as the anti-Assad forces in Syria and the implications for European state stability. Drawing on personal psychology, social psychology, and social movement theory the article offers an integrated theoretical framework to analyze the r…
The State as Terrorist
A common response by policy makers, scholars, and the public following September 11 was to declare that everything was different now and the world would never be the same again. In many important w
Media Framing of Terrorism
This study presents experimental findings on the impact of media framing of the 2005 London bombings. A total of 371 American participants were exposed to one of two frames to test their effect on public attitudes towards civil liberties and Muslims, and support for counterterrorism policies. Results show that the “domestic homegrown” frame produces greater increases in fear than the “international” frame. This leads to greater support for restri…
Old myths, new fantasies and the enduring realities of terrorism
Keywords: knowledge claimsmythsfantasiesmedianetworksSeptember 11al-Qaedacounter-terrorismcommunication
Outside of a Small Circle of Friends
The paper begins with a brief discussion of the conditions under which genocide and other instances of mass killing occur and discusses recent levels of reporting of such instances. The core of the paper is an examination of the circumstances and structural conditions which have allowed these crimes against humanity to go relatively undernoticed and unchallenged. Three interrelated questions concerning the assumptions which are built into the cur…
Swamps, Hot Spots, Dick Cheney and the Internationalization of Terrorist Campaigns
The opportunity to introduce the four articles in this special issue and to reflect on their meaning and contribution is most welcome. Lai’s “Draining the Swamp ” examines the ability of a state to impose costs on terrorist groups by examining the relationship between states ’ strength and the generation of terror, Braithwaite’s and Li’s “Transnational Terrorism Hot Spots ” employs local spatial statistics to identify terrorism hot spot neighborh…
Discourses on countering violent extremism
Research on terrorism has always gravitated around qualitative methods and statistical techniques. Technology plays an essential role in terrorism and counterterrorism analysis by providing collections of large databases in many fields and the computational power to analyze them. Machine learning has shown new methods that could complement standard and well-established methodological approaches. This work contributes to the bridging of machine le…
National Interests and State Terrorism in International Affairs
(1984). National Interests and State Terrorism in International Affairs. Political Science: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 37-52
Don't confuse me with the facts
It became commonplace after 11 September 2001 to declare that the events changed ‘everything’ and that the world would never again be as it was before that date. Many spoke of the dividing line of the pre-9/11 and post-9/11 world, and it became commonplace to assert that the events conclusively demonstrated the validity of the thesis that there was a ‘new’ terrorism, at base religious and apocalyptic, more networked rather than hierarchical and v…
On-screen Muslims
Given consistent findings concerning the media’s effect on shaping attitudes related to minority groups, it is important to understand the impact of the common anti Muslim portrayals currently appearing in many facets of US media. The current study implements an experimental design with five conditions (negative hard news, positive hard news, negative entertainment, negative comedy news and the control) and two dependent variables (support for id…
Alternative Futures for Peace Research
Two years ago, Rapoport (1970) asked peace researchers if their work was applicable. In the March 1971 issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution Kent replied to Rapoport's query. This paper continues the dialogue established by Rapoport and Kent. Its central questions concern the nature of peace research and researchers, the source of support, and the applicability (usefulness) of the research. Rapoport's perception of the goal of peace researc…
Alternative Futures for Peace Research
Two years ago, Rapoport (1970) asked peace researchers if their work was applicable. In the March 1971 issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution Kent replied to Rapoport's query. This paper continues the dialogue established by Rapoport and Kent. Its central questions concern the nature of peace research and researchers, the source of support, and the applicability (usefulness) of the research. Rapoport's perception of the goal of peace researc…
War and Domestic Political Violence
This paper is concerned with the indirect systemic linkages whereby conflict at one level (in this case war involvement) generates systemic changes at the domestic level, which in turn alter the character of conflict at that level. To evaluate these linkages, I examine the changes in the magnitude and intensity of economic, social, and political violence in the domestic system that occur before, during, and after war involvement. Data have been c…
War and Domestic Violence
Evaluating When and Why Men Revolt
A Time of Terror
Political Economy and the Palate
The Policy Consequences of the Green Revolution
By examining data from fifteen Latin American nations on several agricultural‐ and food‐related variables for 1965 to 1977, this paper analyzes the efficacy of the Green Revolution for food consumption. A Radical Model is offered to explain why a high technology, export‐oriented, agricultural policy may not adequately serve the food consumption needs of Third World countries
National Interests and State Terrorism in International Affairs
(1984). National Interests and State Terrorism in International Affairs. Political Science: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 37-52
Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Assistance from Nixon to Carter
This paper reports some preliminary findings on the relationships between United States policies towards human rights as it is expressed in Presidential policy and U.S. military and economic assistance to nations which have a substantial record of human rights threats and abuses. It examines these relationships from the start of the Nixon presidency through the end of the Carter administration. The statistical findings indicate that under Preside…
The Foreign Policy of Human Rights
Throughout the 1980 presidential campaign, candidate Reagan clearly and sharply criticized the Carter human rights policy, arguing that it was morally unsound, ineffective, and threatening to United States' security interests.' According to the Reagan view, the policy was morally tenuous because it created a double standard, condemning minor human rights violators while overlooking major offenders. It was considered ineffective because it actuall…
State Violation of Human Rights
The Role of Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Assistance Policy
In a recent study, David Cingranelli and Thomas Pasquarello (1985) discovered a modest positive relationship between certain types of U.S. foreign assistance and human rights behavior. We believe a number of factors raise concerns over the validity of these results. Following some discussion, a brief and simplified reanalysis is presented, which varies the cases, economic data, and human rights measures employed by Cingranelli and Pasquarello. Th…
Government Violence and Repression
Outside of a Small Circle of Friends
The paper begins with a brief discussion of the conditions under which genocide and other instances of mass killing occur and discusses recent levels of reporting of such instances. The core of the paper is an examination of the circumstances and structural conditions which have allowed these crimes against humanity to go relatively undernoticed and unchallenged. Three interrelated questions concerning the assumptions which are built into the cur…
Current Perspectives on International Terrorism
Authoritarians and Democrats
Activities and Appointments
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United States Human Rights Policy and Foreign Assistance
This study furthers the inquiry into the relationship between human rights and U.S. bilateral foreign aid. We build the most comprehensive data set to date, extending the time period (1976–1995) and enlarging the number of countries under review (140). Rhetoric aside, human rights considerations did play a role in determining whether or not a state received military aid during the Reagan and Bush administrations, but not for the Carter or Clinton…
Is the Past Prologue? Terrorists and WMD
In the years immediately before and certainly after September 11, many scholarly and policy analyses have focused on the causes and consequences of the “new terrorism.” These analyses have suggested that the new terrorism is caused by the emergence of “religious” and “millearian” terrorists in contrast to the “political” terrorists who dominated the “old terrorism” (see, for example, Lesser et al. 1999; Morgan 2004) and that the consequence is gr…
Images of Terror
The State as Terrorist
A common response by policy makers, scholars, and the public following September 11 was to declare that everything was different now and the world would never be the same again. In many important w
Networks of Terror
Journal Article Networks of Terror: Theoretical Assumptions and Pragmatic Consequences Get access Cynthia Stohl, Cynthia Stohl 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Stohl Michael Stohl 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
Swamps, Hot Spots, Dick Cheney and the Internationalization of Terrorist Campaigns
The opportunity to introduce the four articles in this special issue and to reflect on their meaning and contribution is most welcome. Lai’s “Draining the Swamp ” examines the ability of a state to impose costs on terrorist groups by examining the relationship between states ’ strength and the generation of terror, Braithwaite’s and Li’s “Transnational Terrorism Hot Spots ” employs local spatial statistics to identify terrorism hot spot neighborh…
Old myths, new fantasies and the enduring realities of terrorism
Keywords: knowledge claimsmythsfantasiesmedianetworksSeptember 11al-Qaedacounter-terrorismcommunication
Crime and Terrorism
Veteran researchers Grabosky and Stohl draw on organised crime to illuminate the neglected terrain between terrorism and more ordinary forms of illegal behaviour
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