TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Carrots, sticks, and insurgent targeting of civilians
JO  - Journal of conflict resolution
A1  - Asal, Victor
A1  - Phillips, Brian J.
A1  - Rethemeyer, R. Karl
A1  - Simonelli, Corina
A1  - Young, Joseph K.
SP  - 1710
EP  - 1735
VL  - 63
IS  - 7
N2  - How do conciliatory and coercive counterinsurgency tactics affect militant group violence against civilians? Scholars of civil war increasingly seek to understand intentional civilian targeting, often referred to as terrorism. Extant research emphasizes group weakness, or general state attributes such as regime type. We focus on terrorism as violent communication and as a response to government actions. State tactics toward groups, carrots and sticks, should be important for explaining insurgent terror. We test the argument using new data on terrorism by insurgent groups, with many time-varying variables, covering 1998 through 2012. <br><br>RESULTS suggest government coercion against a group is associated with subsequent terrorism by that group. However, this is only the case for larger insurgent groups, which raises questions about the notion of terrorism as a weapon of the weak. Carrots are often negatively related to group terrorism. Other factors associated with insurgent terrorism include holding territory, ethnic motivation, and social service provision.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-0027
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022002718789748
ID  - ref1
ER  -