The Evolution of U.S. Actions toward Muslims and Terrorists’ Reponses to Them

• In Event: Terrorism: Cause and Effect

Abstract

The United States’ involvement in the affairs of predominantly Muslim countries has only attracted mainstream social and political attention after the 9/11 attacks. Since then, the U.S. federal government’s behavior toward Muslims has been scrutinized by global media and has been used to justify a Jihadi war against the West. This research presents a new dataset that documents U.S. federal government actions toward Muslims and predominantly Muslim terrorist organizations from 1989 through 2012. We analyze the effects of different types of actions on terrorist attacks on U.S. nationals by Muslim organizations.

Authors

• Laura Dugan, University of Maryland

• Daren Fisher, The Citadel

• Erica Chenoweth, University of Denver