Existing research suggests that the use of harsh repression can exacerbate the incidence and duration of terrorism. Micro- and macro-level analyses have shown that coercive government responses to terrorism can radicalize sympathizers, increase recruitment, and undermine community support for counterterrorism policies, leading to backlash and increased terrorist activity. Focusing on torture techniques, this article aims to establish mechanisms implicit in the backlash hypothesis. These arguments imply that information about government transgressions is available to potential group sympathizers, but have not examined whether and how variation in the visibility of different torture techniques affects the likelihood of backlash. Scarring tort...
Torture can be understood as part of a geopolitical response to a discursively inflated threat. Publ...
This paper looks at the acceptability of torture as a national security policy to combat terrorism. ...
When confronted by terrorism, governments normally respond with repression, which can aggravate the ...
Do governments respond to terrorism with torture? Although states face incentives to increase tortu...
This article focuses on the use of interrogational torture as a counter-terrorism strategy and the p...
The question of how coercive government policies affect the duration and outcome of terrorist campai...
It is a curious fact that torture and terrorism tend to go hand in hand. When liberal states that wo...
Is it the duty of government to protect its citizens and their society at all costs? Does a governm...
Why does torture persist despite its prohibition? Scholars, policymakers, and the public have heavil...
It is commonly believed that torture is an effective tool for combating an insurgent threat. Yet whi...
The War on Terror, initiated by the US Government under George W. Bush, reintroduced torture as an o...
The War on Terror has generated fierce debate on torture as a means of thwarting terrorist threats....
What drives individuals to condone state torture? This article advances our understanding through a ...
The question of how terrorist campaigns end has only recently started to attract scholarly interest....
Terrorists attack civilians to coerce their governments into making political concessions. Does this...
Torture can be understood as part of a geopolitical response to a discursively inflated threat. Publ...
This paper looks at the acceptability of torture as a national security policy to combat terrorism. ...
When confronted by terrorism, governments normally respond with repression, which can aggravate the ...
Do governments respond to terrorism with torture? Although states face incentives to increase tortu...
This article focuses on the use of interrogational torture as a counter-terrorism strategy and the p...
The question of how coercive government policies affect the duration and outcome of terrorist campai...
It is a curious fact that torture and terrorism tend to go hand in hand. When liberal states that wo...
Is it the duty of government to protect its citizens and their society at all costs? Does a governm...
Why does torture persist despite its prohibition? Scholars, policymakers, and the public have heavil...
It is commonly believed that torture is an effective tool for combating an insurgent threat. Yet whi...
The War on Terror, initiated by the US Government under George W. Bush, reintroduced torture as an o...
The War on Terror has generated fierce debate on torture as a means of thwarting terrorist threats....
What drives individuals to condone state torture? This article advances our understanding through a ...
The question of how terrorist campaigns end has only recently started to attract scholarly interest....
Terrorists attack civilians to coerce their governments into making political concessions. Does this...
Torture can be understood as part of a geopolitical response to a discursively inflated threat. Publ...
This paper looks at the acceptability of torture as a national security policy to combat terrorism. ...
When confronted by terrorism, governments normally respond with repression, which can aggravate the ...