Publishing Institution: United States Institute of Peace / Topic: Terrorism

Author:: Ethan Beuno de Mesquita
Publication Date:: 05-2007
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: United States Institute of Peace
Abstract:: This report examines the correlates of individual-level support for terrorism in fourteen Muslim countries. I identify a variety of factors that are correlated with support for terrorism. These factors can be divided into a several categories: attitudes toward Islam, attitudes toward the United States, attitudes toward politics and economics in the home countries, and demographic factors.
Topic:: Development, Peace Studies, Religion, and Terrorism
Political Geography:: United States

Author:: Hind Haider
Publication Date:: 04-2006
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: United States Institute of Peace
Abstract:: As Iraq teeters on the precipice of a civil war, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, continues to search for ways to push the country over the edge.1 Yet questions linger about Zarqawi's ultimate motivation: Is it his loathing of foreign occupation forces that make him tick? Or is his hatred of Iraq's Shia the essential and irreducible sentiment that sustains his violent jihad? This distinction between Zarqawi's quest to promote a Sunni-Shia civil war and al Qaeda's broader goal of waging a universal battle that unites all Muslims against Western "infidels" has many implications, not merely for the future of Iraq, but also for the Middle East and the war on terror itself.
Topic:: Civil War and Terrorism
Political Geography:: Iraq and Middle East

Author:: Shlomo Brom
Publication Date:: 03-2006
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: United States Institute of Peace
Abstract:: The landslide victory of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the January 25 Palestinian legislative elections has been met with concern and alarm by Israel, the United States, and others in the international community. This concern is rooted in Hamas' history as an organization that sponsors terrorism and that is ideologically committed to the destruction of Israel. For many observers in Israel and throughout the international community, Hamas' victory signaled the end of Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.
Topic:: International Relations, Peace Studies, and Terrorism
Political Geography:: United States and Middle East

Author:: Emily Hsu and Beth DeGrasse
Publication Date:: 02-2006
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: United States Institute of Peace
Abstract:: Since they reorganized their forces in Pakistan in 2003, Taliban and other anti-government militia have sought to disrupt democratization efforts and sow a climate of fear in Afghanistan. As a result, violence has crept back onto the international radar screen in the last couple of years, a brutal reminder the insurgency is far from defeated. This rise in bloodshed is particularly problematic today, as U.S. forces begin this summer to transfer control of insurgent-heavy regions of the country to NATO. The U.S. Institute of Peace held a recent special session of its Afghanistan Working Group dedicated to this topic, with counterinsurgency experts Seth Jones of the RAND Corporation and Colonel David Lamm of National Defense University. Beth DeGrasse, coordinator of USIP's Afghanistan Working Group
Topic:: Democratization, Government, and Terrorism
Political Geography:: Pakistan, Afghanistan, United States, and Asia

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