Terrorist Responses to Verbal Attacks: Strategic Logic Towards Whom?

• In Event: Collective Action Problem, Rebels and the Strategic Logic of Terrorist Violence

Brief Overview

We use Bayesian structural VAR to analyze daily event data on interactions between terrorist groups and governments for the 2014-2023 period. We examine the differences in the terrorist responses to verbal attacks with differing initiating states.

Authors

• Iliyan Iliev, University of Southern Mississippi

• Brandon Derr, University of Southern Mississippi