Archetypal Terrorist Events in the United States

Russell Lundberg

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2019, vol. 42, issue 9, 819-835

Abstract: This research presents a typology of terrorist events rather than the more common typologies of terrorist groups and ideologies. Archetypal analysis, a quantitative methodology to identify pure types, was used with data in START's Global Terrorism Database to identify archetypal attacks in the United States. A set of seven archetypal events was identified including abortion bombings, poisonings, Aryan hate, hostage-taking, fire/bomb for damage, assassination, and the catastrophic Big Bad. These archetypes may be useful for training and exercising for events with additional potential value for developing theory of terrorist events.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2018.1430618

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