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SUICIDE TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY IN DIFFERENT POLITICAL SYSTEMS
Gabrijela Šamija
orcid.org/0000-0002-6731-4173
Sažetak
The subject of this research paper is the connection between the occurrence of suicide attacks and the political system of the countries that are attacked. Since terror attacks represent an attack on the society and social order, national security represents a kind of connection between those two variables. Suicide attack campaigns are on the rise since the 1980s and they have reached their peak in 2001. That very well-known attack on the United States marks the beginning of a new kind of globalised activity of terrorist organizations. The results show that all countries, no matter their political system, are targets of suicide attacks, which means that there is no pattern in the activity of terrorist organizations that use suicide attacks. There is also a difference in the number of suicide attacks, where anocratic countries are attacked more often. Furthermore, the results show that the targets of most attacks, in all political systems, are security targets, and most of the attacks were carried out by religious terrorist organizations. Finally, we provide a brief illustration of the concluding remarks on the example of the Republic of Iraq.
Ključne riječi
suicide attacks; political systems; national security; descriptive statistics; illustration
Hrčak ID:
262946
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Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2020.
Posjeta: 930 *