When Suicide Kills: An Empirical Analysis of the Lethality of Suicide Terrorism

Why are some suicide terrorist attacks deadlier than others? Suicide bombers, unlike stationary bombs, are self-guided human weapons; they can deliver and detonate explosives at a specific time and place with precision. Coding and analyzing new data on over four hundred suicide terrorist incidents f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burcu Pinar Alakoc
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bielefeld 2017-12-01
Series:International Journal of Conflict and Violence
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Online Access:http://ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/493