All terrorist groups need finance to operate. It is a means for certain accomplish their objectives; others, it the aims itself per se. Terrorist are therefore involved in different levels of organized crime. One them illicit drug trafficking, which has nexus with crime and groups. This study demonstrate better understanding Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) evolution into an criminal organizati...

Lie detection procedures typically aim at determining the guilt or innocence of a single suspect. The Concealed Information Test (CIT), for example, has been shown to be highly successful in detecting the presence or absence of crime-related information in a suspect's memory. Many of today's security threats, however, do not come from individuals, but from organized groups such as criminal orga...

This paper assesses the parameters and utility of “targeted killing” in combating terrorism and its role within the norm of state self-defense in the international community. The author’s thesis is that, while targeted killing provides states with a method of combating terrorism, and while it is “effective” on a number of levels, it is inherently limited and not a panacea. The adoption and exec...

When governments’ ability to maintain power is threatened, they use any tool at their disposal re-establish or boost survival. In this paper, we theorize dyadic strategic choices and interactions between governments domestic terrorist groups in times of economic turmoil. We contend that are more likely increase targeting groups, which provides legitimate opportunities divert public attention fr...

We argue that the sense of identity is a prime motivator of terrorist activities and investigate its implications for defence against terrorism. Our framework models the decentralized terrorism (not sponsored by any state) that is characteristic of contemporary reality. Terrorist responses to perceived affronts to identity increase with the intensity of spite towards out-groups and altruism tow...

We consider a game played by a state sponsor of terrorism, a terrorist group, and the target of terrorist attacks. The sponsoring state wishes to see as much damage inflicted on the target of attack as possible, but wishes to avoid retaliation. To do so, his relationship with the terrorist group must remain ambiguous. The target of attack, for his part, wishes to bring these attacks to an end a...

The advancement in technology has brought a new era in terrorism where Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become a major platform of communication with wide range of usage from message channeling to propaganda and recruitment of new followers in terrorist groups. Meanwhile, during the terrorist attacks people use OSNs for information exchange, mobilizing and uniting and raising money for the vi...

The terrorism threat is multifaceted and ever-present; this as a result of terrorism taking on all forms including Islamic, non-Islamic, foreign and domestic. After 9/11, the federal government focused on jihadists and government resources were focused on engaging foreign jihadists allowing a resurgence of non-Islamic domestic terrorism including the lone wolf terrorist (LWT). The problem is th...