posted 2009-10-20T16:58:21Z
clauset et al. suggest that terrorist organizations may be best understood as firms whose primary product is political violence, finding similarities between scaling properties of attacks and production curves of manufacturing. then, gould et al. ask whether or not terrorism actually works, in terms of achieving its political goals. they found that from 1984 to 2006, local terror attacks caused israelis to be more willing to grant territorial concessions to palestinians. golder et al. discuss the elusive definition of terrorism.