'Inside a Wave of Terrorism'; by Martin Harrow in Journal of Global Change and Governance
Academic article on terrorism published in American journal by DIIS PhD Candidate
Martin Harrow has published the article “Inside a Wave of Terrorism: The Dynamic Relation Between Terrorism and the Factors Leading to Terrorism” in Journal of Global Change and Governance
Abstract:
That terrorism is not evenly distributed across space and time, but rather occurs in waves, is a well known but generally overlooked piece in the puzzle of understanding why terrorism happens. This article proposes that terrorism, rather than being the extremist version of an ideology, is the contingent result of the availability of a number of factors. The reason why terrorism occurs in waves is that a number of these factors are reproduced by terrorist activities. Terrorism, thus, becomes a system where a terrorist act, through positive feedback mechanisms, reproduces terrorism.
The article attempt to untangle how the availability of some factors contribute to terrorism and how the positive and negative feedback mechanisms (in some situations) bring about the emergence of waves of terrorism (and in some situations does not). On the basis of these feedback mechanisms, a dynamic model of the system of terrorism is developed.
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