Measuring Global Counterterrorism Policies: Building a Cross‑National Database Using Large Language Models and RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)

• In Event: Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency: The State Responses to Political Violence

Brief Overview

We develop a global database of counter‑terrorism laws using an LLM‑RAG pipeline to classify legal foundations and quantifies enforcement intensity to produce a cross‑national Legal Severity Index.

Authors

• Yasutaka Tominaga, Hosei University

• Chia-yi Lee, National Chengchi University