Hardening Strategies, Check Points, and the Displacement of Terror

• In Event: Countering Terrorism

Brief Overview

With daily geo-coded data on checkpoints and terror attacks in the West Bank and Israel, we argue that counterterrorism which hardens targets but fails to address underlying political motives for violence will displace, not reduce, terrorism.

Authors

• Trevor Charles Bachus, Saint Louis University

• Matthew Jacob Nanes, Saint Louis University