Toward An Integrated Behavioral Framework for Analyzing Terrorism: Individual Motivations to Group Dynamics

By building on a theoretical framework, which expands rational choice theory to include group-based motivations, this paper offers an integrated behavioral model for analyzing terrorism. This model is used to understand the life cycle of a terrorist group; their formation and demise and also their t...

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Published in:Democracy and security 2005-01, Vol.1 (1), p.5-31
Main Author: Gupta, Dipak K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Buildings
Gangs
Group Dynamics
Life Cycle
Motivation
Offenders
Original Articles
Rational Choice
Terrorism
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Summary:By building on a theoretical framework, which expands rational choice theory to include group-based motivations, this paper offers an integrated behavioral model for analyzing terrorism. This model is used to understand the life cycle of a terrorist group; their formation and demise and also their transformation from ideological groups to criminal gangs and vice versa. For understanding terrorism, it is not essential to offer a strict functional model of human motivations. However, in this article, I argue that if we must, we should expand the rational choice model to include the primordial human urge of belonging to a group.
ISSN:1741-9166
1555-5860
DOI:10.1080/17419160500222733