International Cooperation, Spoiling, and Transnational Terrorism

Conrad, Justin; Walsh, James Igoe

doi:10.1080/03050629.2014.892873

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“…More broadly, how else do international relations affect terrorism? Some research has looked at international cooperation (Byman, 2006;Conrad and Walsh, 2014;Plumper and Neumayer, 2010), foreign aid (Lee, 2016), and international organizations (Pascoe 2016), but more work can be done to integrate explicitly international phenomena into the study of terrorism.…”

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Foreign Terrorist Organization designation, international cooperation, and terrorism

Phillips

2018

International Interactions

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How does branding militant groups as "foreign terrorist organizations" affect them? Beyond its obvious policy importance, this question speaks to debates about counterterrorism, terrorism financing, and organizational dynamics of subnational violence. This article analyzes Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation, a key policy used by the U.S. government since 1997 to impose costs on foreign terrorist groups and those who might support them. Contrary to arguments that sanctions are ineffective and that terrorism is too "cheap" to be affected, it is argued that designation should weaken terrorist groups, reducing their attacks over time. However, the effect is probably conditional. FTO designation should be especially effective against groups operating in U.S.-aligned countries, given the importance of international cooperation in counterterrorism. Global quantitative analyses suggest that FTOs operating in U.S.-aligned countries carry out fewer attacks over time than other groups, taking many other factors into consideration.

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Foreign Terrorist Organization designation, international cooperation, and terrorism

Phillips

2018

International Interactions

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Fighting together? understanding bilateral cooperation in the realm of counterterrorism

Perliger

Milton

2018

Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict

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Fifty Shades of Terrorist Credit-Taking: A Review of the Existing Scholarship on Terrorist Credit-Taking

Hansen¹

2021

International Studies Review

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The consistently low credit-taking rates, 16 percent in 2016 (Global Terrorism Database), continue to challenge the understanding of terrorism as “propaganda of the deed” twenty years after researchers initially pointed out the conundrum. While providing an overview and evaluation of the limited existing literature on credit-taking, this paper draws attention to three core problems in the current literature on terrorist credit-taking, which may have led the low credit-taking rates to appear more puzzling than is due. First, the available explanations struggle to find corroboration when empirically tested and many also show theoretical shortcomings with strong unspoken assumptions and unclear predictions of credit-taking behavior. Second, data structure and data availability unnecessarily narrow our academic understanding of credit-taking. Finally, theories focused on group characteristics such as religious motivation or state sponsorship suffer from severe issues of sample bias due to unintended selection on the dependent variable. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research less prone to the problematic issues identified in the article. A re-orientation toward a less restrictive and more fine-grained understanding of credit-taking is advised.

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International Cooperation, Spoiling, and Transnational Terrorism

Cited by 5 publications

References 37 publications

Foreign Terrorist Organization designation, international cooperation, and terrorism

Foreign Terrorist Organization designation, international cooperation, and terrorism

Fighting together? understanding bilateral cooperation in the realm of counterterrorism

Fifty Shades of Terrorist Credit-Taking: A Review of the Existing Scholarship on Terrorist Credit-Taking

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