The Dangers of Terror in World Politics: International Terror Crises, 1918–2006

Ben‐Yehuda, Hemda; Levin-Banchik, Luba

doi:10.1080/1057610x.2011.531457

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“…The first approach focuses on the impact of the attributes of crisis actors, such as their political regime, military and economic capabilities, or possession of nuclear weapons (Asal and Beardsley, 2007; Ben-Yehuda and Levin-Banchik, 2010, 2014; Lektzian and Souva, 2009; Mishali-Ram, 2006). Some actor attributes, such as political regime, change rarely and slowly.…”

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Precrisis military hostility and escalation in international crises

Levin-Banchik

2020

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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Why do some international crises escalate into violence while others do not? I argue that an understanding of crisis behavior necessitates awareness of the processes preceding a crisis and propose two mechanisms that link precrisis hostility with crisis violence. The population fatigue mechanism suggests that precrisis hostility interrupts the everyday life of a population, strengthening its demand for a harsher response. If leaders behave with restraint during a crisis and after the crisis hostilities resume, leaders risk facing greater dissatisfaction from their now even more fatigued population. The baseline for resolve mechanism suggests that if states are actively hostile before a crisis, they must maintain hostility during a crisis to credibly demonstrate resolve. Findings on international crises between 1918 and 2010 support the interphase relationship: a crisis escalation is significantly more likely after a hostile precrisis period. The behavior of opponents can indicate how crises might unfold even before they begin.

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Precrisis military hostility and escalation in international crises

Levin-Banchik

2020

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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“…The rise of the child terrorist (Bloom & Horgan, 2015; Gray & Matchin III, 2008) has raised questions about radicalization and recruitment of children, and their role in terrorism. Whereas the use of children as soldiers 2 has been examined extensively (Rosen, 2005, 2007; Wessells, 2006), there is little research on children in terrorism (Ben-Yehuda & Levin-Banchik, 2011; Roberts, 2015; Weinberg, Pedahzur, & Hirsch-Hoefler, 2004), or security violations by Palestinian youth in particular. 3 Palestinian terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah have regularly recruited and employed children (HRW, 2004; Times of Israel Staff, 2015).…”

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Terrorism as Self-Help: Accounts of Palestinian Youth Incarcerated in Israeli Prisons for Security Violations

Berko

Erez

Gur

2017

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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Adopting and expanding Black’s conception of terrorism as self-help, this study examines how Palestinian youth become involved in security violations. Based on an analysis of in-depth interviews conducted with 10 Palestinian youth incarcerated in Israeli prisons, their experiences are described, including the aftermath of arrest and imprisonment. Their accounts are complemented by interviews with six wardens and correctional officers overseeing the prison’s youth wings, a review of military court transcripts from proceedings leading up to the youth’s incarceration, and observations of participants’ daily prison routines. The data detail pathways and recruitment processes, motivations, rewarding aspects of participation, and the costs incurred as a result by participants and their families. Security violations are analyzed as self-help responses to collective grievances and personal problems. The theoretical and policy implications of the findings are discussed.

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What do we know about crisis, escalation and war? A visual assessment of the International Crisis Behavior Project

James

2018

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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This study uses a visualization technique, systemism, to integrate ICB Project findings about crisis, escalation and war in particular. The domain of the analysis, 1999-2017, is the period following the authoritative review of research in Michael Brecher (1999; International studies in the twentieth century and beyond: Flawed dichotomies, syntheses, cumulation, International Studies Quarterly 43: 213-264) up to the present. Systemism is used to combine, in graphic form, substantively significant results from ICB Project research. Insights about cause and effect for escalation processes are obtained that would not readily be available in the absence of graphic representation. This learning is made possible through application of systemism, a visualization technique, to convey a network of variables leading into war.

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The Dangers of Terror in World Politics: International Terror Crises, 1918–2006

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Precrisis military hostility and escalation in international crises

Precrisis military hostility and escalation in international crises

Terrorism as Self-Help: Accounts of Palestinian Youth Incarcerated in Israeli Prisons for Security Violations

What do we know about crisis, escalation and war? A visual assessment of the International Crisis Behavior Project

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