Anonyma terroristattacker – i terrorismens kölvatten.
(2022) STVU15 20221Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- In 2016 Max Abrahms and Justin Conrad published a study that resulted in a theory regarding anonymous terrorist attacks. Terrorism is a political communication strategy used by groups to communicate their grievances and the cost of ignoring them. In practice, however, terrorist groups only take responsibility for a small fraction of all attacks. Terrorist leaders are not honored for the violence and generally deny that their members committed it. This theoretical and empirical difference may explain why scientists ignore the problem of unclaimed attacks, even though these are the norm.
Anonymous terrorist attacks hold still today 85% of all conducted attacks.
This study aims to analyze if Abrahms & Conrad’s theory can fill the lacuna to... (More) - In 2016 Max Abrahms and Justin Conrad published a study that resulted in a theory regarding anonymous terrorist attacks. Terrorism is a political communication strategy used by groups to communicate their grievances and the cost of ignoring them. In practice, however, terrorist groups only take responsibility for a small fraction of all attacks. Terrorist leaders are not honored for the violence and generally deny that their members committed it. This theoretical and empirical difference may explain why scientists ignore the problem of unclaimed attacks, even though these are the norm.
Anonymous terrorist attacks hold still today 85% of all conducted attacks.
This study aims to analyze if Abrahms & Conrad’s theory can fill the lacuna to help account for variation in which attacks are claimed.
This was achieved by applying Abrahms & Conrad’s theory to two bomb attack cases, Railway station in Bologna 1980 and Hotel Marriott in Islamabad 2008.
The theory doesn’t take to account modern factors such as how social media may influence credit claiming in anonymous terrorist attacks.
The result of this paper shows that the theory only has mixed explanatory power when it comes to claiming logic in the phenomenon of anonymous terrorism. (Less)
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- author
- Nilsson, Jerry LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVU15 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Anonyma, terrorism, Bologna, Islamabad, Principal-agent, bomb
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9078980
- date added to LUP
- 2022-05-13 10:56:00
- date last changed
- 2022-05-13 10:56:00
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