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Determinants of International Terrorist Group Formation, 1968-1999

Terrorism has become a focus of much political thought over the past few years, and with good reason, yet most quantitative studies of terrorism investigate the likelihood of a terrorist incident while ignoring the precursors to terrorist group formation. I examine cases of new terrorist group formations between the years 1968 and 1999 as a function of domestic demographic, geographic, governmental and societal factors. This is done by Poisson regression analysis, which determines the significance of the independent variables on a count of new international terrorist group formations per country year. The results indicate that higher levels of material government capability, high levels of political freedom, the availability of low-cost refuge, and a cultural tradition of terrorism all have a positive impact on the number of new terrorist group formations, while a higher degree of governmental durability has a negative impact.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc5107
Date12 1900
CreatorsWorrell, Blake
ContributorsGreig, Michael, Enterline, Andrew J., Eshbaugh-Soha, Matthew
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
Coverage1968-1999
RightsPublic, Copyright, Worrell, Blake, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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