The Internationalization of Terrorist Campaigns

Navin A. Bapat
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Navin A. Bapat: The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, bapat@unc.edu

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2007, vol. 24, issue 4, 265-280

Abstract: Many scholars have examined terrorism as a conflict between a state and a nonstate actor. However, during terrorist campaigns, terrorists often seek sanctuary from target attacks by crossing into foreign host states. This action effectively transforms the conflict from a purely domestic contest into an international issue. This paper explores why terrorist organizations make the choice to internationalize conflicts by adopting a foreign host. Further, this paper examines why host governments accept terrorist organizations. To address these questions, this research develops a simple game theoretic model to explain the decision to internationalize terrorism. The paper concludes with an empirical test of the model's predictions.

Keywords: transnational terrorism; conflict; civil war (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1080/07388940701643607

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