@article{ref1,
title="The impact of counterterrorism and strain on Palestinian terrorism",
journal="Contributions to conflict management, peace economics and development",
year="2008",
author="Beasley, M.",
volume="7",
number="",
pages="331-348",
abstract="PURPOSE: The majority of academic and policy studies on counterterrorism rely on what is termed &quot;the terror stock model.&quot; According to this model, terrorist activity can be viewed as a product of a stock of terror: a combination of human, physical, and monetary resources needed to launch terrorist attacks. Consequently, countering terrorism is a matter of reducing the capacity of terrorist organizations to operate via direct assaults on terrorists themselves. Defining terrorism as a form of collective action, this article examines how various Israeli initiatives influence Palestinian acts of terrorism. <br><br>METHOD: This paper investigates how the rate of suicide terror attempts is affected by violent, non-violent, and socioeconomic forms of initiatives by the Israeli government between 2000 and 2006 using a series of event-history analyses. While directly addressing the efficacy of what the Israeli government terms as its methods of counterterrorism - violent repression of insurgents and terror suspects - it also explores the applicability of various social movement theories to exact a more accurate awareness of what activities actually incite or inhibit terrorism. <br><br>FINDINGS: The results indicate that while certain forms of repression that the Israeli government identifies as counter-terrorist measures (such as killing of insurgents and detentions) have the intended outcome - a lower rate of suicide bombings - other forms and measures of repression have mixed effects. The results suggest that suicide bombings can be explained at least partly by a mixture of increased hostility, limited capacity to mobilize, and socioeconomic distress. © 2008 Emerald Group Publishing Limited.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1572-8323",
doi="10.1016/S1572-8323(08)07018-5",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1572-8323(08)07018-5"
}