Hard Targets: Theory and Evidence on Suicide Attacks

By Eli Berman, David D. Laitin. 2005

154 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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1. V. Thelen
2. L. Heger
3. J. Azam
4. B. Caplan

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2. L. Heger
3. J. Azam
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2. L. Heger
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Citations in the corpus

• The roles of foreign aid and education in the war on terror (2008, background): “Berman and Laitin (2005), Ferrero (2006) and Wintrobe (2006) provide a third line of argument, and analyze instead the social pressure dimension of the decision to opt for suicide bombing.”
• Terrorism: The relevance of the rational choice model (2006, background): “The Tamil Tigers allegedly recruit suicidal terrorists by threatening their families (Berman & Laitin, 2005, pp. 25 – 26).”
• Votes and violence (2015, result): “Although suicide missions are practical against hardened targets (Berman & Laitin, 2005), this finding is also consistent with many of the most infamous suicide missions that take place in public areas and seem intentionally designed to inflict maximum damage against civilian targets.”