Suicide terrorism and the backlash effect

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 443-457

  Rosendorff, B Peter ^a   Sandler, Todd ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Backlash; Game theory; Mobilization; Preemption; Recruitment; Suicide terrorism; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650232147     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2010.491679     Document Type: Article

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