Strategic Interaction of governments and terrorist groups in times of economic hardship

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buir.contributor.authorTokdemir, Efe
buir.contributor.orcidTokdemir, Efe|0000-0002-9579-1292
dc.citation.epage756en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber6en_US
dc.citation.spage742en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber32en_US
dc.contributor.authorTokdemir, Efe
dc.contributor.authorKlein, G. R.
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-16T08:46:18Z
dc.date.available2022-02-16T08:46:18Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-14
dc.departmentDepartment of International Relationsen_US
dc.description.abstractWhen governments’ ability to maintain power is threatened, they use any tool at their disposal to re-establish or boost their survival. In this paper, we theorize dyadic strategic choices and interactions between governments and domestic terrorist groups in times of economic turmoil. We contend that governments are more likely to increase their targeting of domestic terrorist groups, which provides legitimate opportunities to divert public attention from economic concerns and rally individuals around the flag. Meanwhile, observing such incentives, domestic terrorist groups make strategic decisions similar to those of interstate actors by either decreasing their attacks (strategic conflict avoidance) or increasing them (strategic conflict seeking) to add an inability to provide safety and security to the government’s existing struggles. We test these competing hypotheses by leveraging two recently released event datasets focusing on the Turkey-PKK conflict. Our findings contribute to the terrorism studies literature on decision-making and strategic choices, and broader scholarship about conflict processes by testing conflict dynamics at the domestic level.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10242694.2021.1940457en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1476-8267
dc.identifier.issn1024-2694
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/77413
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2021.1940457en_US
dc.source.titleDefence and Peace Economicsen_US
dc.subjectDiversionen_US
dc.subjectStrategic conflict avoidanceen_US
dc.subjectDomestic terror groupsen_US
dc.subjectEconomyen_US
dc.subjectTurkey-PKKen_US
dc.titleStrategic Interaction of governments and terrorist groups in times of economic hardshipen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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