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WEINBERG, LEONARD B (4) answer(s).
 
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Cost of Terrorism: the relationship between international terrorism and democratic governance / Weinberg, Leonard B; Eubank, William L; Francis, Elizabeth A   Journal Article
Eubank, William L Journal Article
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Publication 2008.
Summary/Abstract After Al Qaeda's destruction of the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, many democracies reacted to the event, and to international terrorism in general, by passing laws restricting civil liberties and political rights, raising questions about the balance between security and liberty. Such laws have produced alarms among civil libertarians, worldwide. Are the alarms justified? In this article we analyze the relationship between the yearly number of international terrorist attacks in 24 countries from 1968-2003 and (a) measures of civil liberties and political rights as provided by Freedom House, and (b) levels of democracy as measured in the Polity IV scales. We take the number of international terrorist events, by country, from data provided by the Memorial Institute of the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) http://www.tkb.org/Home.jsp. Our analysis indicates that there is, generally, no relationship between the number of international terrorist events and the levels of civil rights, political rights, or democracy as measured by the Freedom House and Polity IV indicators. When there is a statistically significant relationship, it is negative, opposite to what is predicted by the tradeoff hypothesis
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ID:   120316


Introduction to the special issue on violence, elections, and p / Altier, Mary Beth; Martin, Susanne; Weinberg, Leonard B   Journal Article
Weinberg, Leonard B Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract At a White House banquet held in his honor in March 1954, Winston Churchill observed that it was better to "jaw-jaw" than "war-war." In the Cold War atmosphere of the time (Stalin had died the previous year), Churchill was maintaining that talking with the Soviet leadership was better than a nuclear confrontation between the two superpowers. Who would argue otherwise?
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ID:   012288


Terrorism and democracy within one country: The case of Italy / Eubank, William L; Weinberg, Leonard B Spring 1997  Article
Eubank, William L Article
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Publication Spring 1997.
Description 98-108
Key Words Italy-Terrorism  Terrorism-Italy 
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ID:   144920


Terrorism in an era of unconventional warfare / Martin, Susanne; Weinberg, Leonard B   Article
Weinberg, Leonard B Article
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Summary/Abstract Academic studies of terrorism and mass political violence have developed largely independently of one another. Insurgents, in contrast, have tended to incorporate terrorism tactics along with other types of unconventional warfare in their repertoire of action. This tendency has become more apparent among insurgents engaging in armed confrontations in the twenty-first century. In order to take account of this development, scholars and others interested in contemporary warfare need to incorporate terrorism studies within the broader subject of insurgencies and “small wars”—political violence, in other words.
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