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In the winter 2010/2011 issue of International Security, Mia Bloom responds to Bradley Thayer and Valerie Hudson’s article “Sex and…
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Are Muslims prone to large-scale political violence? Many prominent political scientists have argued that there is a connection between Islam…
Continue ReadingNonstate Actors and the Diffusion of Innovations: The Case of Suicide Terrorism
What if the inclination of a terrorist group to adopt suicide bombing as a tactic is determined less by individual…
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