Background The link between mental health difficulties and terrorist behaviour has been the
subject of debate for the last 50 years. Studies that report prevalence rates of mental health …

This article reviews the existing literature, mostly from political science, on suicide bombing.
A prominent weapon in the toolkit of violent nonstate actors for a generation, suicide …

This overview examines critically the post-9/11 empirical literature on terrorism. Major
contributions by both economists and political scientists are included. We focus on five main …

Writing this book has been a wonderful intellectual journey. It began when Dustin arrived at
Princeton University as a graduate student in the fall of 2005. Originally, our focus was on …

Since 2001, a preponderance of terrorist activity in Europe, North America, and Australia,
has involved radicalized Westerners inspired by al Qaeda. Described as 'homegrown …

Although scholars have focused primarily on transnational terrorism, much of the terrorism
occurring worldwide is domestic terrorism carried out by rebel groups fighting in civil wars …

Studies of terrorism in general and suicide terrorism in particular tend to view terrorist groups
independently. However, what if the propensity for a terrorist group to adopt suicide tactics …

Using a database of recent articles published in prominent political science journals, we
show the rapid increase in terrorism research. Given this increased awareness and …

Since 2009, the Islamist group known as Boko Haram (formally known as Jama'atu Ahlis
Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad, or more recently, the Islamic State's West Africa Province …

The 2007 US Attorney firing scandal raised the specter of political bias in the prosecution of
officials under federal corruption laws. Has prosecutorial discretion been employed to …