Brittnee Carter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3838493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brittnee Carter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brittnee |
| FAMILY NAME | Carter |
| SIGNATURE | CARTER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0469-1809 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Of monsters and martyrs
Can presidents use human rights rhetoric to manipulate public perceptions of foreign countries and build support for foreign policies? Previous research shows that public perceptions of human rights conditions in foreign countries affect public support for military intervention. This makes public perceptions of human rights a potential political tool. Political leaders can weave narratives about human rights conditions in foreign countries to per…
International troop deployments and insurgent territorial advances
Examining the counterinsurgency-counterterrorism tradeoff
Do targeted strikes against militant groups affect insurgent operations differently from terrorist operations? One of the reasons it is challenging for states to counter militant groups who simultaneously wage an insurgency and a terrorist campaign is that there are offsetting effects between counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. As both an insurgent group and a terrorist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) poses particular c…
The Queens’ gambit
If more women were put in states’ leadership positions, would there be fewer militarised interstate disputes? The findings of this study suggest an affirmative answer to this question but for reasons that are different from the arguments associating women with peace. We derive our expectations from the ‘role incongruity’ perspective detailing the impact of gender stereotypes on individuals’ assessment of leaders and their decisions. Due to gender…
Women in Militant Movements
Gender Inequality and State Security
Women’s roles in political violence and terrorism have largely been examined through the agent/victim dichotomy. We suggest that women’s social inequality contributes to both roles of women as victims and as perpetrators of terrorist violence, with both roles ultimately contributing to increases in supplies of domestic terrorism. Particularly, women’s social inequality contributes to terrorism in three ways: it normalizes violence in society, mak…
Primed for Violence
Intrareligious competition may be founded on grievances stemming from social and political context. The environment that the state creates may fuel intrareligious competition and conflict. Using case studies on Pakistan and Iraq, we examine the role of the state in facilitating intrareligious conflict. We argue the state creates competition for material resources due to institutional characteristics concerning political participation, the educati…
Revisiting the Bandwagoning Hypothesis
Early theories of alliance formation often focus on when great power or status quo states will enter into military alliances. However, revisionist powers, seeking to threaten the international order igniting global security concerns, often draw power from their alliances with small regional neighbours and weak states. Though several studies discuss indicators that may potentially drive these weak states to bandwagon with revisionist powers to the…
Framing Violence
Though existing research on religiously motivated terrorism has examined the characteristics of groups across religious traditions, very few have disaggregated their studies to the level of sect. Sectarian differences in conceptualizing world views and group membership may have a substantial impact on the framing rhetoric and behaviors of religiously motivated terrorist groups. This study investigates whether Islamist terrorist groups belonging t…
When Civilians are Targets
This research investigates the link between ideology and state sponsorship of terrorist and militant groups on the propensity to attack civilian targets. I argue that religiously motivated terrorist and militant groups have a predisposition toward civilian attacks and that states will intentionally sponsor these groups because of their willingness to target civilians. The results find that religiously motivated groups attack civilian targets at h…
Bringing suspected terrorists to justice? Revealing bias against Muslims in applied counter terrorism by the U.S
This study analyzes the conditions under which the U.S. engages in active counterterrorism approaches. Specifically, it examines the active criminal justice approach which views terrorism as a crime and the military approach which views terrorism as an act of wars and seeks to uncover under what conditions the U.S. will employ one approach over the other. Using evidence from the U.S. from 1970–2014, content analysis is performed to reveal the con…
State Sponsorship of Religiously Motivated Terrorism
This study investigates the outcomes of suicide terrorism by examining the interaction between religious ideology and state sponsorship. Specifically, we are interested in how state sponsorship may facilitate religiously motivated terrorist groups to carry out suicide attacks. Religiously motivated terrorism groups are predisposed to the utilization of suicide terrorism because of the justification of unrestrained violence to achieve religious go…
Democratic or cultural peace? Examining the joint democratic peace proposition through the lens of shared emancipative values
Is it joint democracy or state similarity that has a pacifying impact on interstate relations? This study explores the complementarity of the two propositions and demonstrates the potential of a particular kind of shared emancipative culture embracing values of autonomy, equality, choice, and voice to amplify the impact of joint democracy on interstate conflict. The data on cultural values, which comes from the World Values Survey, was integrated…
Liberalism and Religion
This study tests the association between liberalism and religion on militarized disputes in the politically and religiously similar and mixed state dyads. The analysis (1980–2001) integrates the Correlates of War and World Religion Datasets. The findings suggest that while religious makeup of state dyads does not vitiate the impact of democracy, religious similarity amplifies the impact of liberalism. The results also suggest that Christian–Musli…
Military Aid and Human Rights
APPROXIMATELY 109,000 MILITARY STUDENTS from 160 countries participated in U.S. security cooperation programs during fiscal year 2012. The total cost of approximately 53,700 individual events, through which the U.S. government trained foreign military, police, and law enforcement officers, was $1.017 billion.1 Foreign military sales, which have been on the rise since 2006, also peaked in 2012, with $69.1 billion in sales of defense articles and s…
Power in concert
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBrittnee CarterBrittnee Carter (MA, University of Washington) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kansas. Her research interests include international relations theory, international ethics and international security
Military Aid and Human Rights
APPROXIMATELY 109,000 MILITARY STUDENTS from 160 countries participated in U.S. security cooperation programs during fiscal year 2012. The total cost of approximately 53,700 individual events, through which the U.S. government trained foreign military, police, and law enforcement officers, was $1.017 billion.1 Foreign military sales, which have been on the rise since 2006, also peaked in 2012, with $69.1 billion in sales of defense articles and s…
The Queens’ gambit
If more women were put in states’ leadership positions, would there be fewer militarised interstate disputes? The findings of this study suggest an affirmative answer to this question but for reasons that are different from the arguments associating women with peace. We derive our expectations from the ‘role incongruity’ perspective detailing the impact of gender stereotypes on individuals’ assessment of leaders and their decisions. Due to gender…
Revisiting the Bandwagoning Hypothesis
Early theories of alliance formation often focus on when great power or status quo states will enter into military alliances. However, revisionist powers, seeking to threaten the international order igniting global security concerns, often draw power from their alliances with small regional neighbours and weak states. Though several studies discuss indicators that may potentially drive these weak states to bandwagon with revisionist powers to the…
State Sponsorship of Religiously Motivated Terrorism
This study investigates the outcomes of suicide terrorism by examining the interaction between religious ideology and state sponsorship. Specifically, we are interested in how state sponsorship may facilitate religiously motivated terrorist groups to carry out suicide attacks. Religiously motivated terrorism groups are predisposed to the utilization of suicide terrorism because of the justification of unrestrained violence to achieve religious go…
Framing Violence
Though existing research on religiously motivated terrorism has examined the characteristics of groups across religious traditions, very few have disaggregated their studies to the level of sect. Sectarian differences in conceptualizing world views and group membership may have a substantial impact on the framing rhetoric and behaviors of religiously motivated terrorist groups. This study investigates whether Islamist terrorist groups belonging t…
Power in concert
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBrittnee CarterBrittnee Carter (MA, University of Washington) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kansas. Her research interests include international relations theory, international ethics and international security
Military Aid and Human Rights
APPROXIMATELY 109,000 MILITARY STUDENTS from 160 countries participated in U.S. security cooperation programs during fiscal year 2012. The total cost of approximately 53,700 individual events, through which the U.S. government trained foreign military, police, and law enforcement officers, was $1.017 billion.1 Foreign military sales, which have been on the rise since 2006, also peaked in 2012, with $69.1 billion in sales of defense articles and s…
Liberalism and Religion
This study tests the association between liberalism and religion on militarized disputes in the politically and religiously similar and mixed state dyads. The analysis (1980–2001) integrates the Correlates of War and World Religion Datasets. The findings suggest that while religious makeup of state dyads does not vitiate the impact of democracy, religious similarity amplifies the impact of liberalism. The results also suggest that Christian–Musli…
Democratic or cultural peace? Examining the joint democratic peace proposition through the lens of shared emancipative values
Is it joint democracy or state similarity that has a pacifying impact on interstate relations? This study explores the complementarity of the two propositions and demonstrates the potential of a particular kind of shared emancipative culture embracing values of autonomy, equality, choice, and voice to amplify the impact of joint democracy on interstate conflict. The data on cultural values, which comes from the World Values Survey, was integrated…
Bringing suspected terrorists to justice? Revealing bias against Muslims in applied counter terrorism by the U.S
This study analyzes the conditions under which the U.S. engages in active counterterrorism approaches. Specifically, it examines the active criminal justice approach which views terrorism as a crime and the military approach which views terrorism as an act of wars and seeks to uncover under what conditions the U.S. will employ one approach over the other. Using evidence from the U.S. from 1970–2014, content analysis is performed to reveal the con…
State Sponsorship of Religiously Motivated Terrorism
This study investigates the outcomes of suicide terrorism by examining the interaction between religious ideology and state sponsorship. Specifically, we are interested in how state sponsorship may facilitate religiously motivated terrorist groups to carry out suicide attacks. Religiously motivated terrorism groups are predisposed to the utilization of suicide terrorism because of the justification of unrestrained violence to achieve religious go…
Framing Violence
Though existing research on religiously motivated terrorism has examined the characteristics of groups across religious traditions, very few have disaggregated their studies to the level of sect. Sectarian differences in conceptualizing world views and group membership may have a substantial impact on the framing rhetoric and behaviors of religiously motivated terrorist groups. This study investigates whether Islamist terrorist groups belonging t…
When Civilians are Targets
This research investigates the link between ideology and state sponsorship of terrorist and militant groups on the propensity to attack civilian targets. I argue that religiously motivated terrorist and militant groups have a predisposition toward civilian attacks and that states will intentionally sponsor these groups because of their willingness to target civilians. The results find that religiously motivated groups attack civilian targets at h…
Primed for Violence
Intrareligious competition may be founded on grievances stemming from social and political context. The environment that the state creates may fuel intrareligious competition and conflict. Using case studies on Pakistan and Iraq, we examine the role of the state in facilitating intrareligious conflict. We argue the state creates competition for material resources due to institutional characteristics concerning political participation, the educati…
Revisiting the Bandwagoning Hypothesis
Early theories of alliance formation often focus on when great power or status quo states will enter into military alliances. However, revisionist powers, seeking to threaten the international order igniting global security concerns, often draw power from their alliances with small regional neighbours and weak states. Though several studies discuss indicators that may potentially drive these weak states to bandwagon with revisionist powers to the…
Gender Inequality and State Security
Women’s roles in political violence and terrorism have largely been examined through the agent/victim dichotomy. We suggest that women’s social inequality contributes to both roles of women as victims and as perpetrators of terrorist violence, with both roles ultimately contributing to increases in supplies of domestic terrorism. Particularly, women’s social inequality contributes to terrorism in three ways: it normalizes violence in society, mak…
Examining the counterinsurgency-counterterrorism tradeoff
Do targeted strikes against militant groups affect insurgent operations differently from terrorist operations? One of the reasons it is challenging for states to counter militant groups who simultaneously wage an insurgency and a terrorist campaign is that there are offsetting effects between counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. As both an insurgent group and a terrorist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) poses particular c…
The Queens’ gambit
If more women were put in states’ leadership positions, would there be fewer militarised interstate disputes? The findings of this study suggest an affirmative answer to this question but for reasons that are different from the arguments associating women with peace. We derive our expectations from the ‘role incongruity’ perspective detailing the impact of gender stereotypes on individuals’ assessment of leaders and their decisions. Due to gender…
Women in Militant Movements
International troop deployments and insurgent territorial advances
Of monsters and martyrs
Can presidents use human rights rhetoric to manipulate public perceptions of foreign countries and build support for foreign policies? Previous research shows that public perceptions of human rights conditions in foreign countries affect public support for military intervention. This makes public perceptions of human rights a potential political tool. Political leaders can weave narratives about human rights conditions in foreign countries to per…
Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · State (computer science (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (7 works)