In recent years, terrorist groups have used the WWW to spread their ideologies, disseminate propaganda, and recruit members. Studying the terrorist websites may help us understand the characteristics of these websites and predict terrorist activities. In this paper, we propose to apply network topological analysis methods on systematically collected the terrorist website data and to study the s...

Political movements that engage in terrorism typically have too few material resources— personnel, funds, or territory under their control—to achieve their goals through legitimate political action or large-scale organized violence (Fromkin, 1975). Terrorist attacks are part of an indirect strategy for achieving their political objectives by influencing an audience (Crenshaw, 1981). These terro...

with the intensification of violent terrorist operations in the world, in terms of the structural causes of terrorism has been much academic research. the active area of terrorism is not only physical variables and variable should ideological and psychological, environmental and cultural-identity also tracked. the reasons are complex and varied phenomenon of terrorism and can not cause its root...

Terrorism is the greatest threat to national security and cannot be defeated by conventional military force alone. In critical areas such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Turkey, regular forces cannot reach these hostile/terrorist groups, the instigators of terrorism. These groups have a clear understanding of the relative ineffectiveness of counter-guerrilla operations and rely on guerrilla warfare to...

This study explored the dynamics of terrorism through a content analysis of terrorist and nonterrorist groups’ documents. Thirteen terrorist groups were matched with non-terrorist controls, and their documents were coded for the values they attributed to their opponents and their own group. Relative to controls, terrorist groups attributed higher dominance values to their opponents and higher d...

In this paper, we apply a sequential game to study the possibility of 'contracts' (or at least mutually beneficial arrangements) between a government and a terrorist group. We find equilibrium solutions for complete and incomplete information models, where the government defends and/or provides positive rent, and the terrorist group attacks. We also study the sensitivities of equilibria as a fu...

Terrorist Activities worldwide has approached the evolution of various high-ended methodologies for analyzing terrorist groups and networks. Existing research found that Social Network Analysis (SNA) is one of the most effective and predictive method for countering terrorism in social networks. The study reviewed various SNA measures for predicting the key players/ main actors of terrorist netw...