this article is examining the general assembly’s efforts on terrorism and the impacts they have had on states’ behaviors in last three decades. general assembly actions on terrorism can be divided in two types: first, actions contributing to development of normative conceptions of the problem by defining terrorism as a common phenomena which proceeded in its resolutions; and second, encouraging...

the economic situation in the arab countries is due to several factors as the political crisis in a socio-economic vulnerability. political changes are usually accompanied by a drop in production, a deterioration of macroeconomic balances, a high level of poverty, an appearance of economic corruptions and a structural increase in unemployment. in addition, the expansion of terrorism is a main i...

In the second half of the 1990s, Islamist terrorism emerged as a serious security threat to both Europe and Russia. For Europe, in contrast to the United States, Islamist terrorism became an increasingly domestic threat, stemming from cells formed primarily by Muslim firstand second-generation migrants. In Russia, the radicalization of an internal armed conflict in the North Caucasus was the ma...

A motivational analysis of suicidal terrorism is outlined, anchored in the notion of significance quest. It is suggested that heterogeneous factors identified as personal causes of suicidal terrorism (e.g. trauma, humiliation, social exclusion) as well as the various ideological reasons assumed to justify it (e.g. liberation from foreign occupation, defense of one’s nation or religion) may be p...

In this article, we argue that past efforts to distinguish among types of intimate partner violence in general survey data have committed a critical error--using data on current spouses to develop operationalizations of intimate terrorism and situational couple violence. We use ex-spouse data from the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS) to develop new operationalizations. We then dem...

In this work, the author develops and explains a set of economic models under the decision theoretic framework to conceptualize the requisite levels of investment in the defense against cyber terrorism. This paper begins with a naïve model of cyber defense, on which the author progressively implements aspects of layered defense and domain conditionality to investigate practicable investment lev...

Abstract As described in this paper, we analyzed the influence of the time necessary to begin coping behaviors on the damage caused by chemical terrorism. To calculate the damage of a chemical attack in a major rail station, our network model-based pedestrian simulator was applied with systems designed to predict hazards of indoor gas diffusion. Our network model is designed to conduct simulati...

What country conditions breed terrorism? Relative deprivation theory holds that instead of an absolute standard of deprivation, a gap between expected and achieved welfare leads men to political violence. My research examines whether levels of unemployment and higher education that reflect relative deprivation correspond with an increase in terrorist attacks. A recent surge in empirical studies...