Criminalizing Terrorist Babble: Canada's Dubious New Terrorist Speech Crime

Terrorist bombing

Bombings and explosion incidents directed against innocent civilians are the primary instrument of global terror. In the present review we highlight the major observations and lessons learned from these events. Five mechanisms of blast injury are outlined and the different type of injury that they cause is described. Indeed, the consequences of terror bombings differ from those of non-terrorism...

Terrorist Factions ∗

I study how a variety of structural and strategic factors affect terroristmobilization, the likelihood of a splinter faction forming, and the positions adopted by terrorist leaders. The factors considered include the state of the economy, the viability of institutions for the nonviolent expression of grievance, the ability of the factional leaders to provide nonideological benefits, and the ris...

Defending Multiple Terrorist Targets

This paper analyzes a situation in which multiple targets are exposed to a potential terrorist threat. The probability of an attack is determined endogenously in a game theoretic model. Assuming identical targets, the first-best policy requires that the investment in deterrence should be equalized across all targets. As each target tries to divert an attack to others, the symmetric equilibrium ...

Mapping Terrorist Organizations

Destabilizing Terrorist Networks

Most people have at least an intuitive understanding of hierarchies, how they work, and how to affect their behavior. However, covert organizations, such as terrorist organizations, have network structures that are distinct from those in typical hierarchical organizations. Their structure is distinct from the organizations that most people in western culture are used to dealing with. In particu...