While the legacy of the Arab Spring is still not definitely determined, one thing that can be said with near certainty is that it has further destabilized the Middle East, including Yemen. Many U.S. administration officials have declared that the Yemeni-based terrorist organizat…
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Afghan National Police (ANP) and United States Special Operations Forces (USSOF) in Afghanistan have overlapping mandates that include the prosecution of terrorists, criminals, and insurgents. Although published literature acknowledges that this overlap creates jurisdictional pr…
Since the late 1970s, Pakistan has been struggling against terrorist violence. In the pursuit of security against this violence various governments have implemented numerous counterterrorism legislative measures, but terrorism remains a major issue for Pakistan today. Its counte…
In just over two years, the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) established itself as a global threat unlike any Islamic extremist group that preceded it. ISIS has adopted unprecedented tactics in order to establish, maintain, and develop its ideologies and to create an Islam…
This dissertation study is a baseline investigation into Iraqi insurgents' use of YouTube as a strategic communication tool. The study utilized a content analysis of videos from October 28, 2008 to December 1, 2008 for the search term 'Iraqi resistance' on YouTube that met state…
The findings of this study suggest that factors impacted by culture, such as ideas about honor, courage, strength, military prowess, masculinity, past warfare traditions, and visual imagery may influence terrorist views about chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN…
What is an effective counterterrorism strategy? Using the case of the conflict in Northern Ireland and the case of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, this project tests the arguments of Paul Wilkinson and Peter Sederberg, concerning approaches to the threat of terrorism,…
Why do some states' policies converge over time and not others? Why have some counter-terrorism policies in some states converged in the post-9/11 period and not others? Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001, there has been an aggregate trend towards policy convergence in sta…
In my dissertation, I investigate a largely unexplored question of differences in the scope and brutality of states' responses to terrorism using statistical analysis of 15 states, the former Soviet republics of the USSR (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhsta…
Problem. The impact of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), with its emphasis on preemptive military force, is a matter of considerable debate. This dissertation uses a time series intervention approach to evaluate the extent to which the onset of the GWOT (beginning with the inv…
Deterrence theory predicts that an attack can be prevented if a defender communicates a clear, costly, and credible retaliatory threat that persuades an opponent that the costs of the attack outweigh possible benefits. While deterrence has received detailed treatment in inter-st…
Rational choice theory has been one of the key theories used to explain the effectiveness of counterterrorism policies (Dugan, LaFree & Piquero, 2005; Enders & Sandler, 1993; 2003; Frey, 2004; LaFree, Dugan & Korte, 2009). These investigations have examined policies focused on i…
Most terrorist groups do not survive past their first few years of existence. All terrorist groups, even those that survive for decades, face a basic and constant existential threat: discovery of their activities, personnel, and plans by government law enforcement and intelligen…