Moving Beyond Deterrence: The Effectiveness of Raising the Expected Utility of Abstaining from Terrorism in Israel

American Sociological Review

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 597-624

  Dugan, Laura ^a   Chenoweth, Erica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

conciliation; counterterrorism; deterrence; expected utility; Israel; Palestine; rational choice theory; terrorism

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; POLITICAL RELATIONS; STATE ROLE; TERRORISM; VIOLENCE;

ISRAEL; PALESTINE;

EID: 84864772403     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: 19398271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003122412450573     Document Type: Article

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