What Makes Terrorists Tick

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ID11262658
AuthorsErica Chenoweth (0000-0003-3113-2439, Erica Chenoweth is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University., corresponding author), Nicholas L Miller (Research Experiences for Undergraduates), Nicholas Miller (0009-0000-7201-9227, Nicholas Miller is an undergraduate Government major at Wesleyan.), Elizabeth McClellan (Elizabeth McClellan is an undergraduate Comparative Government and Studio Art double major at Wesleyan. For a longer, more detailed version of this letter, see Erica Chenoweth's website, .), Hillel Frisch (Hillel Frisch is Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Studies and Middle East History at BarIlan University. He thanks Stuart Cohen, Efraim Inbar, and Gordon McCormick for their helpful comments.), Paul Staniland (0000-0003-2881-3575, Paul Staniland is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science and member of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. The author would like to thank Brendan Green, Vipin Narang, Joshua Rovner, and Cyrus Samii for helpful comments.), Max Abrahms (0000-0002-3633-5684, Max Abrahms is a Social Science Predoctoral Fellow in the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He would like to thank Mia Bloom, Martha Crenshaw, Matthew Gottfried, Peter Krause, Jessica Stern, Paul Stockton, and Robbie Totten for their helpful comments. He is especially grateful to Richard English for sharing his expertise over the years on the Irish Republican...)
Year2009
Volume33
Issue4
Pages180-202
Publication date2009-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Security (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2889 • E-ISSN: 1531-4804
PublisherMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/isec.2009.33.4.180
OpenAlexW2022187796
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited42

Max Abrahms’s article “What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy” is a welcome critique of the many points taken for granted by rational choice interpretations of terrorist group behavior.1 His systematic review of the observable implications of rational choice perspectives on terrorism reveals some of the important shortfalls in the current literature. Abrahms overreaches, however, in rejecting strategic models of terrorism without providing ample empirical evidence or qualifications to his claims

Art history · Government (linguistics · Library science · Miller · Political science · Politics · Classics · Computer Science · History · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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