COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TERRORIST TACTICS OF POLITICAL ASSASSINATION AND SUICIDE ATTACKS
https://doi.org/10.24411/2221-3279-2019-10008
Abstract
The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of terrorist tactics, in particular to the search for macro-causes of the appeal to the political murders of prominent state and public fi gures. Examined are the political and social-economic conditions related to political murders committed by terrorists, and conditions associated with the attacks of suicide bombers. In the course of the study, a series of negative binomial regression models were constructed for four periods from 1995 to 2011. As a result, some root causes clearly linked to the use of terrorist tactics of political assassinations were identifi ed. The fi ndings indicate that terrorist tactics stem from various underlying problems in the country.
About the Author
A. V. Novikov
Russian Economic University of Plekhanov
Russian Federation
Researcher, Department of Political Science and Sociology
Russian Federation
Researcher, Department of Political Science and Sociology
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Novikov A.V. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TERRORIST TACTICS OF POLITICAL ASSASSINATION AND SUICIDE ATTACKS. Comparative Politics Russia. 2019;10(1):124-147. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24411/2221-3279-2019-10008
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