Stopping suicide attacks
Subtitle: optimal strategies and unintended consequences
By: Michael McBride, Gary Richardson
Contributors: Richardson, Gary; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16637; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16637.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Governments fighting terrorists have many tactical options, yet these options often yield unintended and counterproductive consequences.  This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide bombers, and the society in which the terrorists are embedded.  The model illuminates how the choice of anti-insurgent tactics influences the incidence of attacks, paying particular attention to the direct and indirect (unintended) consequences of the government's actions.  The ultimate goal of this work is to identify the best way to stop terrorist attacks"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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