In the United States, all people are constitutionally awarded the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In the past few years, our political leaders have assailed these rights in the name of a “War Against Terrorism,” and they have done little to establish the public’s assumed right to have even basic healthcare. This right should be undeniable, even if it is not pr...

This research explores that the U.S. Foreign policy was re-established as a way of punishing terrorist groups in aftermath 9/11, with initiation War on Terrorism (WOT) 2001. The continued spending billions dollars its effort to secure safety for citizens. Bush and Obama administrations took numerous actions such diplomatic actions, democracy, laws, resolutions, state sponsor policies, financial...

Using time-series procedures, we investigate whether transnational terrorism changed following 9/11 and the subsequent US-led " war on terror. " Perhaps surprising, little has changed in the time series of overall incidents and most of its component series. When 9/11 is prejudged as a break date, we find that logistically complex hostage-taking events have fallen as a proportion of all events, ...

This article opens the special issue by identifying themain contributions to date of the empirical and theoretical literature on terrorism. Important past theoretical articles investigated the application of game theory to study interactions among adversaries (e.g. terrorists and governments) and allies (e.g. commonly targeted governments). Past empirical articles examined the effectiveness of ...

Media and news agencies often call psychiatrists and psychologists and pose questions about mental illness (a worthy topic) or some inane but catchy topic (such as the one I received from a reporter asking, with a straight face, “How do you diagnose people who talk to themselves?”). Big news about crimes, and especially terrorism, may push psychiatrist interviews from the local feature to the c...

This article analyses how events of political violence in the distant past affect outbreak terrorism present. Civil wars leave a legacy distrust that can persist through generations, paving way to violent responses perceived threats. We claim part explanation for counterintuitive phenomenon prosperous and relatively egalitarian region such as Basque Country (and, potentially, other cases terror...

Rally-round-the-flag (RRTF) is a phenomenon of abrupt and sharp increases in public support for sitting U.S. Presidents and their policies, which emerges primarily in response to wars and other international crises. Despite being an important political phenomenon, the RRTF phenomenon is not well understood for at least three reasons. First, existing explanations are generally hyper-rationalisti...

We examined the distress level of 102 Holocaust survivors in Israel during a recent period of continuous exposure of the Israeli population to terror and the threat of missile attack. Based on the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, we explored the contribution of losses suffered during the Holocaust and of current loss of resources due to terror attacks on their distress level. Twenty one ...