What Makes Terrorists Tick
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Author(s)
Staniland, Paul Stephen
Chenoweth, Erica
Miller, Nicholas LeSuer
McClellan, Elizabeth
Frisch, Hillel
Abrahms, Max
Date Issued
January 2009
Journal
International Security
Publisher
MIT Press
Citation
Chenoweth, Erica, et al. "Correspondence: What Makes Terrorists Tick” International Security, Vol.33, No.4 (Spring 2009) pp.180-202.
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Final published version
Abstract
Max Abrahms’s article “What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and
Counterterrorism Strategy” is a welcome critique of the many points taken for granted
by rational choice interpretations of terrorist group behavior.1 His systematic review of
the observable implications of rational choice perspectives on terrorism reveals some
of the important shortfalls in the current literature. Abrahms overreaches, however, in
rejecting strategic models of terrorism without providing ample empirical evidence or
qualifications to his claims.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
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