State Capacity and Counterinsurgency Success: The Case of Terrorism Using Rebel Groups

• In Event: Assessing Counterinsurgency & Counter Terrorism

Brief Overview

States face trade-offs in countering insurgent groups that use both guerrilla warfare and terrorism. I test the effect of military and bureaucratic capacity on the use of guerilla warfare/terrorism and in turn civil war outcomes from 1980-2016.

Author

• Jennifer L. Hudson, University of Central Florida