Exploring Terrorist Targeting Preferences

• Main Author: Libicki, Martin C. (auth)
• Other Authors: Chalk, Peter (auth), Sisson, Melanie W. (auth), Sisson, Melanie (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2007
• Subjects: International relations; Terrorism, armed struggle; Political Science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Governments spend billions to protect against terrorism. Might it help to understand what al Qaeda would achieve with each specific attack? This book examines various hypotheses of terrorist targeting: is it (1) to coerce, (2) to damage economies, (3) to rally the faithful, or (4) a decision left to...