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Responding to terrorism? human rights organization shaming and terrorist attacks / Asal, Victor; Deloughery, Kathleen ; Murdie, Amanda

Asal, Victor	Article
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Why do Human Rights Organizations (HROs) target or “shame” countries for human rights abuses? The literature using country-level factors to explain why one country is likely to be targeted over another is growing but many questions still remain. Terrorist activity in a country should have a positive effect on the amount of shaming directed at a country. HROs are in the publicity business and have organizational interests to shame states already receiving attention. Findings show that there is a connection between certain types of transnational terrorist incidents occur in a country and the amount of HRO shaming of governments, even after accounting for the human rights practices within the state.

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Terrorism ; Terrorist Attacks ; Human Rights Organization

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When politicians sell drugs: examining why Middle east ethnopolitical organizations are involved in the drug trade / Asal, Victor; Deloughery, Kathleen; Phillips, Brian J

Asal, Victor	Journal Article
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2012.

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Political organizations claim they are serving the interests of their constituents-but being involved in the drug trade does not seem to support those claims. Why would political organizations sell drugs then? Most often the question of why organizations engage in the drug trade has been explored in the context of organizations that are either criminal or violent, thus leaving a large hole in the literature about how violence and legality intersect with other exploratory factors. We explore this issue more fully by looking at both violent and nonviolent organizations using the Middle East Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior dataset, which has data on over 100 ethnopolitical organizations in the Middle East. Very few of these organizations are involved in the drug trade and yet all of those are engaged in violence at the same time. We explore what factors, other than violence, make this rare behavior for political organizations more likely.

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Crime ; Drugs ; Religion ; Ethnic Conflict ; State Violence

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