Eradicating terrorism in asymmetric conflict: the role and essence of military deterrence

buir.contributor.authorCoşar, Mustafa
buir.contributor.authorCafnik-Uludağ, Petra
dc.citation.epage45en_US
dc.citation.spage1en_US
dc.contributor.authorCoşar, Mustafa
dc.contributor.authorCafnik-Uludağ, Petra
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-03T13:41:42Z
dc.date.available2021-03-03T13:41:42Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study quantitatively and qualitatively analyzes the impact and effectiveness of Turkey’s deterrence-oriented incapacitation effort throughout Turkey’s PKK conflict (1984–2018). By employing vector autoregressive (VAR) analysis, this study quantitatively finds that incapacitation did not reduce PKK violence over the long term and yielded a short-term counterproductive effect. Descriptive analysis asserts that while incapacitation had important mid-term deterring effects, it did not have any sustainable mitigation on the PKK insurrection. This is because, as this study argues, these deterrent impacts were not strategically converted into political gains/results. Considering the latest phase of the conflict, in which Turkey’s intra-state strife has become increasingly regionalized and lately internationalized in military and political terms with the emergence of the Syrian civil war, particularly the rise of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), this study claims that the sole application of an incapacitation-oriented eliminationist approach has become less relevant and less effective. The study suggests that deterrence should be considered within the strategic tit-for-tat game to force/compel the non-state actor to make the conflict more manageable by transforming it in a strategic way, in which strategy of deterrence is to be attached to visionary, long-term, and viable grand strategic political end-states and to be considered within the grand bargaining game.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09546553.2020.1742113en_US
dc.identifier.issn0954-6553
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/75735
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2020.1742113en_US
dc.source.titleTerrorism and Political Violenceen_US
dc.subjectDeterrenceen_US
dc.subjectTerrorismen_US
dc.subjectCounterterrorism (CT)en_US
dc.subjectIncapacitationen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectPKKen_US
dc.subjectCounterinsurgency (COIN)en_US
dc.subjectInsurgencyen_US
dc.subjectMilitary operationsen_US
dc.titleEradicating terrorism in asymmetric conflict: the role and essence of military deterrenceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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