Understanding the Terrorist Mind

INTERPOL’s MIND/FIND network in curbing transnational terrorism

This paper investigates the role that the Mobile/Fixed INTERPOL Network Database (MIND/FIND) has played in the War on Terror. MIND/FIND allows countries systematically to screen people and documents at border crossings against INTERPOL databases. We find that, on average, countries using MIND/FIND in 2008 experienced 0.79 fewer transnational terrorist attacks per 100 million people than they wo...

INTERPOL's Surveillance Network in Curbing Transnational Terrorism

This paper investigates the role that International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) surveillance—the Mobile INTERPOL Network Database (MIND) and the Fixed INTERPOL Network Database (FIND)—played in the War on Terror since its inception in 2005. MIND/FIND surveillance allows countries to screen people and documents systematically at border crossings against INTERPOL databases on terroris...

DFAE-II WP Series

This paper investigates the role that INTERPOL surveillance – the Mobile INTERPOL Network Database (MIND) and the Fixed INTERPOL Network Database (FIND) – played in the War on Terror since its inception in 2005. MIND/FIND surveillance allows countries to screen people and documents systematically at border crossings against INTERPOL databases on terrorists, fugitives, and stolen and lost travel...

The Mind of the Terrorist A REVIEW AND CRITIQUE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES

This article reviews the state of the art of available theories and data regarding the psychology of terrorism. Data and theoretical material were gathered from the world’s unclassified literature. Multiple theories and some demographic data have been published, but very few controlled empirical studies have been conducted investigating the psychological bases of terrorism. The field is largely...

The terrorist rhetorical style and its consequences for understanding terrorist violence