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Understanding the influence of goal-structure on the disbandment of terrorist groups: Don't judge a book by its cover - Couverture souple

Wander, Johannes

 
9783668309821: Understanding the influence of goal-structure on the disbandment of terrorist groups: Don't judge a book by its cover
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3668309825 ISBN 13 : 9783668309821
Editeur : Grin Verlag, 2016

Synopsis

Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,0, Uppsala University (Department of Peace and Conflict Research), language: English, abstract: Very little is known about the circumstances that lead a terrorist group to cease their operations in one way rather than another. This study seeks to answer the question what impact the goal-structure of a terrorist group has on their disbandment. A new framework describes the structure of goals by differentiating operative and official goals of terrorist groups along their geographical scope, their final goal's extent, and the respective effectiveness this is accomplished by. I argue that strategic or abstract goal-structures determine the way a terrorist organisation ends. By applying a multinomial logistic regression model with a novel dataset on 155 groups' goal-structures, I show that a more strategic goal-structure increases the likelihood of splintering and victory, while an abstract goal-structure increases the likelihood of defeat by police or military force whilst also leading terrorist groups to join non-violent political participation.

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À propos de l'auteur

Johannes W. Wander hat in Jena Politik- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften studiert bevor er für drei Jahre in die Schweiz ging, um im Bereich Social Entrepreneurship zu arbeiten. Anschließend studierte er Peace & Conflict Studies in Uppsala (Schweden) und arbeitet nun in der internationalen Zusammenarbeit.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,0, Uppsala University (Department of Peace and Conflict Research), language: English, abstract: Very little is known about the circumstances that lead a terrorist group to cease their operations in one way rather than another. This study seeks to answer the question what impact the goal-structure of a terrorist group has on their disbandment. A new framework describes the structure of goals by differentiating operative and official goals of terrorist groups along their geographical scope, their final goal¿s extent, and the respective effectiveness this is accomplished by. I argue that strategic or abstract goal-structures determine the way a terrorist organisation ends. By applying a multinomial logistic regression model with a novel dataset on 155 groups¿ goal-structures, I show that a more strategic goal-structure increases the likelihood of splintering and victory, while an abstract goal-structure increases the likelihood of defeat by police or military force whilst also leading terrorist groups to join non-violent political participation.

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Éditeur
Grin Verlag
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3668309825
ISBN 13 
9783668309821
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
76
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