Swamps, Hot Spots, Dick Cheney and the Internationalization of Terrorist Campaigns

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ID12074604
AuthorsMichael Stohl (0000-0003-0187-3287, Department of Communication University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California, USA, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume24
Issue4
Pages257-264
Publication date2007-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueConflict Management and Peace Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0738-8942 • E-ISSN: 1549-9219
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/07388940701621009
OpenAlexW2065698052
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

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 neighborhoods and their relationship to future patterns of terrorism within the neighborhood, Koch’s and Cran-mer’s “Testing the Dick Cheney Hypothesis ” examines if governments of the left are more likely to attract terrorist attacks than governments of the right, and Bapat’s “The Interna-tionalization of Terrorist Campaigns ” explores why terrorist organizations make the choice to internationalize conflicts by adopting a third-party state as host. To best appreciate both the contribution that these articles make and the work that still needs to be done it is useful to place them in the context of the literature on terrorism of the past few decades. Prior to September 11, 2001, there had been a series of systematic reviews of the terrorism literature that explored many different facets of the literature. There is much to be learned from these critiques. Remarkably, taken together, and regardless of when

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