Sharing the Dragon's Teeth: Terrorist Groups and the Exchange of New Technologies

Cragin, Kim; Chalk, Peter; Daly, Sara A.

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“…The close monitoring of worldwide financing operations might also be an important way to counterterrorism. Another, unrelated, policy suggestion is for further investments in technology (Cragin et al., ; Crenshaw, ; Enders and Sandler, ). Investment is needed to close the gap between what is technologically feasible and the effective disruption and containment of the activities of terrorist groups worldwide.…”

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International Terrorism, Domestic Political Instability, and the Escalation Effect

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Gassebner

2013

Economics & Politics

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What are the main causes of international terrorism? Despite the meticulous examination of various candidate explanations, existing estimates still diverge in sign, size, and significance. This article puts forward a novel explanation and supporting evidence. We argue that domestic political instability provides the learning environment needed to successfully execute international terror attacks. Using a yearly panel of 123 countries over 1973-2003, we find that the occurrence of civil wars increases fatalities and the number of international terrorist acts by 45%. These results hold for alternative indicators of political instability, estimators, subsamples, subperiods, and accounting for competing explanations.

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International Terrorism, Domestic Political Instability, and the Escalation Effect

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Gassebner

2013

Economics & Politics

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“…Moreover, the close monitoring of world wide financing operations might be an important way to counter terrorism. Another, unrelated, policy suggestion we offer is for further investments in technology (Crenshaw, 2006;Cragin et al, 2007). 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 8 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 Note: This figure shows the outcome of rolling regressions of the specification presented in Table 5, column 1.…”

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International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect

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Gassebner

2009

SSRN Journal

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International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect * What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9/11 remain elusive. The careful investigation of the relative roles of economic and political conditions did little to change the fact that existing econometric estimates diverge in size, sign and significance. In this paper we present a new rationale (the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism. Econometric evidence from a panel of more than 130 countries (yearly from 1968 to 2003) shows this to be a much more promising avenue for future research than the available alternatives.

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“…Groups with transnational aspirations might seek alliances to gain access to local resources, people and local terrain's knowledge (Byman 2014, p. 431;Jadoon 2018, p. 31). Intangible resources, on the other hand, might take the form of 'best practices' sharing (Cragin et al 2007), as groups might benefit from the transfer of new information, technology and tactics (Asal et al 2016;Horowitz 2010). Some groups might also want to associate themselves with an established group to improve their credibility, legitimacy and prestige or to exploit the opportunity to 're-invent their image' (Bacon 2014, pp.…”

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Fragmentation and Cooperation in the Jihadi International (Sub)System: ‘Islamic State’ vs. Al-Qaeda and Beyond

Eleftheriadou

2020

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The article explores the implications the rise of the ‘Islamic State’ (IS) had on the international order and the salafi-jihadi movement. The main argument is that at the height of its activity (2014–2016) IS was a de facto revolutionary state. In this capacity, IS challenged the international order because contrary to revolutionary states in the past it negated the foundations of the Westphalian system. At the same time, the rise of IS had a tremendous impact on the jihadi (sub)system, as it initiated a period of fragmentation and alliance-building. The competition between IS and al-Qaeda for the hegemony of the movement did not revolve around direct fighting as much as efforts to outbid the rival group. One of the main conduits of this competition was the ‘war of bay’as (pledges of allegiance)’, which consisted of competitive oaths of allegiance from local jihadi forces to one of the two groups. In local contexts, the ‘war of bay’as’ increased tensions and factionalism within jihadi groups, as splinter groups decided to side with the new revolutionary foco. The fragmentation of local jihadi groups unfolded along pre-existing cleavages, grievances and resource-related motivations, increasing the levels of violence and complexity in these local conflicts.

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Sharing the Dragon's Teeth: Terrorist Groups and the Exchange of New Technologies

Cited by 22 publications

References 5 publications

International Terrorism, Domestic Political Instability, and the Escalation Effect

International Terrorism, Domestic Political Instability, and the Escalation Effect

International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect

Fragmentation and Cooperation in the Jihadi International (Sub)System: ‘Islamic State’ vs. Al-Qaeda and Beyond

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