Designed to Fail: Modeling Terrorism’s Losing Battle

Terrorism is costly and unlikely to survive any selection process that favors behaviors with higher payoffs. Our evolutionary game model and agent based computer simulations show that group benefits offset the within-group behavioral selection against terrorism. Only those displaying the fittest str...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giti Zahedzadeh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of St Andrews 2017-05-01
Series:Journal of Terrorism Research
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Online Access:http://jtr.st-andrews.ac.uk/articles/1272