TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Rationality Wars and the War on Terror: Explaining Terrorism and Social Unrest
JO  - American anthropologist
A1  - Kuznar, Lawrence A.
SP  - 318
EP  - 329
VL  - 109
IS  - 2
N2  - Terrorism is problematic at multiple levels. Social scientists debate its cause; policymakers debate what to do about it; many debate the meaning and political use of the term; and many live in fear of it. Current explanations of terrorism hinge on competing models of decision making. Anthropologists are increasingly influential in decision theory as issues of rationality, culture, and evolutionary psychology are invoked to explain patterns in human decision making. In this article, I review and critique current explanations of terrorism, I relate these explanations to larger debates in decision theory and anthropology, and I present an example of how current schisms may be transcended.<p /> 
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SN  - 0002-7294
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.2007.109.2.318
ID  - ref1
ER  -