TY - JOUR PY - 2007// TI - A critique of Robert Pape's Dying to Win JO - Journal of strategic studies A1 - Cook, D. SP - 243 EP - 254 VL - 30 IS - 2 N2 - Robert Pape's recent book Dying to Win is one of the most important statistical studies of the global phenomenon of suicide attacks to appear in the recent past. While Pape's basic thesis of the formula of occupation in addition to religious/cultural differences between the occupier and the occupied causing these suicide attacks holds up, there are a number of cases in which it does not. Additionally, some of Pape's historical and Islamic examples are weak. Before proceeding to an over-arching theory of suicide attacks it is important not to ignore the exceptions to Pape's theory.

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