The Emergence of Car Ramming Attacks Worldwide: Diffusion of Terrorist Tactics to Lone Actors

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Brief Overview

How do new terrorist tactics spread to lone actors of varying ideologies worldwide? This paper uses the case of vehicle ramming attacks to test several hypotheses. I present a model of structural and agentic factors that lead to tactical diffusion.

Author

• Ari Weil, University of Chicago