Understanding and Influencing Public Support for Insurgency and Terrorism

• Main Author: Davis, Paul K. (auth)
• Other Authors: Larson, Eric V. (auth), Haldeman, Zachary (auth), Oguz, Mustafa (auth), Rana, Yashodhara (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2012
• Subjects: Warfare & defence; Terrorism, armed struggle; Migration, immigration & emigration; Political Science; Sociology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Using and testing a conceptual model that draws on social science and particularly social movement theory, this volume examines public support for al-Qa'ida's transnational jihadist movement, the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey, and the...