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Palestinian Suicide Bombing Revisited: A Critique of the Outbidding Thesis
Author(s) -
BRYM ROBERT J.,
ARAJ BADER
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
political science quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.025
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1538-165X
pISSN - 0032-3195
DOI - 10.1002/j.1538-165x.2008.tb00632.x
Subject(s) - terrorism , subject (documents) , state (computer science) , politics , political science , doctoral dissertation , sociology , criminology , media studies , law , social science , library science , algorithm , higher education , computer science
Social scientists have argued that numerous factors motivate the outbreak of waves of Palestinian suicide attacks. These factors include the desire to liberate occupied territory, disrupt peace negotiations, seek retaliation and revenge, and win popular support by “outbidding” internal political competitors, using suicide attacks as a kind of currency in the bidding war. Recently, an attempt has begun to disentangle the factors listed above by showing that motives are often mixed and their relative importance varies in different circumstances. In this paper we continue that effort by focusing on the outbid-