We study the effects of terrorism on political trust and national versus ethnic identification. Making use unexpected attacks by extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, which occurred during fieldwork a public opinion survey 2014, we show that even context weak state institutions frequent terrorist activities, terror significantly increase trust. also find reduced salience respondents' identity,...

September 11 created a natural experiment that enables us to track the psychological effects of a large-scale terror event over time. The archival data came from 8,070 participants of 10 ABC and CBS News polls collected from September 2001 until September 2006. Six questions investigated emotional, behavioral, and cognitive responses to the events of September 11 over a five-year period. We fou...

In December 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a declassified executive summary on the use by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of enhanced interrogation techniques against suspected terrorist detainees in the War on Terror. The report relies on 6 million pages of documents that describe the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, providing a systematic and compre...

The terror attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 serves to explore the role of religion and secularism in mediated public spheres. We argue that deliberative theory, including its recent criticisms and extensions, helps navigate normative dilemmas presented by the attacks. From a deliberative perspective, journalists should reprint Charlie cartoons that are perce...

I. This paper aims to discuss some changes in South American regional politics that took place in recent years, highlighting the regionalization process, the nationalist tendencies and their implications for regional integration/disintegration. In this sense, two periods may be discerned. The first, from the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s to the September 11 th terrorist attacks, marks n...

The main aim of the present study was to compare risk perception among Norwegians (n=512) living in the region of Oslo. This study was part of an ERANET 13 project entitled PETRIS, Perception of transport risk in France and Norway. The data collection was carried out in January 2011. The response rate was 51 percent. The results showed that respondents, divided in two groups according to their ...

The rapid and accurate identification of biological agents is a critical step in the case of bio-terror and biological warfare attacks. Recently, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry has been widely used for the identification of microorganisms. In this study, we describe a method for the rapid and accurate discrimination of Bacillus anthracis spores usin...

in Pakistan have repeatedly been involved in major terrorist incidents throughout the world, such as the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington and the 2005 London subway bombings.1 They regularly strike government, coalition, and civilian targets in Afghanistan, hampering efforts to stabilize the country. Also, they frequently target India, threatening to incite an Indo-Pakista...

the main objective of the present paper is to study the trend of emergence and influence of islamophobia in today'srussia. the effective factor that distinguishesrussiafrom other western countries in encountering the muslims are distinct historical features and extreme nationalism (chauvinism. the chauvinism are concerned about the growth of muslim population inrussia. although this factor...