What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy

The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis.

1993 • 8,582 citations

The Functions of the Executive

1938 • 6,875 citations

Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis.

1983 • 5,749 citations

Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems

1988 • 5,481 citations

Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics

1992 • 5,309 citations

Rationalist explanations for war

1995 • 3,668 citations

A primer on decision making : how decisions happen

1994 • 2,453 citations

Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay

1990 • 2,277 citations

Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

1972 • 1,970 citations

A Course in Microeconomic Theory

2020 • 1,728 citations

Understanding terror networks

2004 • 1,481 citations

Why Do Some Civil Wars Last So Much Longer than Others?

2004 • 1,235 citations

Organizations and Organization Theory.

1984 • 1,184 citations

The Causes of Terrorism

1981 • 1,096 citations

Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes

1997 • 1,034 citations

Essence of Decision

1999 • 1,003 citations

War as a Commitment Problem

2006 • 921 citations

Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror

2005 • 739 citations

The Strategies of Terrorism

2006 • 697 citations

New Perspectives on Organizational Effectiveness.

1979 • 695 citations

The Mind of the Terrorist

2004 • 642 citations

Origins of terrorism: psychologies, ideologies, theologies, states of mind

1991 • 514 citations

Neorealism and neoliberalism : the contemporary debate

1993 • 504 citations

The 9/11 Commission Report

2004 • 495 citations

Why Terrorism Does Not Work

2006 • 469 citations

Sabotaging the Peace: The Politics of Extremist Violence

2002 • 429 citations

Terrorism versus democracy: the liberal state response

2001 • 418 citations

Human Ethology: Claims and Limits of a New Discipline.

1982 • 418 citations

B<scp>ARGAINING</scp>T<scp>HEORY AND</scp>I<scp>NTERNATIONAL</scp>C<scp>ONFLICT</scp>

2002 • 359 citations

Terrorist Decision Making

2003 • 354 citations

What Makes a Terrorist

2008 • 307 citations

The age of terrorism

1987 • 293 citations

What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat

2006 • 293 citations

Does democracy encourage terrorism?

1994 • 290 citations

How al-Qaida Ends: The Decline and Demise of Terrorist Groups

2006 • 289 citations

The Human Meaning of Social Change, by Angus Campbell and Philip E. Converse

1973 • 287 citations

The Essence of Military Group Cohesion

2006 • 259 citations

War Is in the Error Term

1999 • 245 citations

Rational Extremism: Understanding Terrorism in the Twenty-first Century

2002 • 235 citations

Unwanted children: Political violence and the cycle of protest in Italy, 1966–1973

1986 • 226 citations

On Terrorism and Electoral Outcomes

2006 • 215 citations

Organizational Theory and Inquiry: The Paradigm Revolution

1985 • 214 citations

Terrorism, Signaling, and Suicide Attack

2004 • 213 citations

The Power to Hurt: Costly Conflict with Completely Informed States

2003 • 212 citations

The terrorists in their own words: Interviews with 35 incarcerated Middle Eastern terrorists∗∗This research was conducted with the support of the Smith Richardson Foundation.

2003 • 209 citations

Terrorism in context

1995 • 185 citations

Issue Indivisibility and Time Horizons as Rationalist Explanations for War

2006 • 182 citations

Rational-Choice Models of Political Behavior vs. Functionalist and Conformist Theories

1969 • 182 citations

The Fourth Wave: September 11 in the History of Terrorism

2001 • 165 citations

Understanding Terrorism in America

2003 • 152 citations

Root Causes of Terrorism

2005 • 145 citations

Terrorism and democracy: What recent events disclose

1998 • 141 citations

Explaining Terrorism: The Contribution of Collective Action Theory

2004 • 138 citations

Dying to Win

2005 • 137 citations

State Bargaining with Transnational Terrorist Groups

2006 • 128 citations

How did this happen?: terrorism and the new war

2002 • 124 citations

Terror in the Name of God

2001 • 121 citations

The missing peace : the inside story of the fight for Middle East peace

2005 • 115 citations

Rational-Choice Models of Political Behavior vs. Functionalist and Conformist Theories

1980 • 113 citations

Can Democracy Stop Terrorism?

2005 • 106 citations

Political Psychology: Contemporary Problems and Issues

1987 • 93 citations

2. Terrorism as a Strategy of Insurgency

2019 • 91 citations

The Protean Enemy

2003 • 87 citations

Political Parties and Terrorist Groups

2010 • 85 citations

Strategic terrorism: The framework and its fallacies

2005 • 84 citations

An Organizational Approach to the Analysis of Political Terrorism

1985 • 82 citations

An Organizational Economics Theory of Antigovernment Violence

1993 • 76 citations

The United States and coercive diplomacy

2004 • 75 citations

The Roots of Terrorism

2013 • 74 citations

Assumptions of Rationality and Non-Rationality in Models of the International System

1961 • 73 citations

Inside Terrorist Organizations

2013 • 69 citations

Friedman and Machlup on the Significance of Testing Economic Assumptions

1965 • 68 citations

Violence, terrorism, and justice

1991 • 68 citations

What makes a terrorist

2007 • 58 citations

Interpretations of Terrorism: Fact, Fiction and Political Science

1977 • 48 citations

Algeria, 1830–2000: A Short History

2001 • 46 citations

Why terrorists don't claim credit

1997 • 42 citations

Future Trends in International Terrorism

1988 • 42 citations

The Balance of Terror: War by Other Means in the Contemporary Middle East

1998 • 42 citations

Political Violence and Terror

1986 • 41 citations

Terrorism: Roots, Impact, Responses

1992 • 41 citations

Organization and the human services : cross-disciplinary reflections

1981 • 37 citations

Coalitions between terrorist organizations: revolutionaries, nationalists and Islamists

2006 • 36 citations

Consequences of political violence

1993 • 28 citations

Armed Forces and Society

1970 • 28 citations

Terrorism research and public policy

1992 • 27 citations

Theories of Terrorism

2011 • 24 citations

Global terrorism: a beginner's guide

2005 • 23 citations

Trends in International Terrorism, 1982 and 1983

1984 • 19 citations

Political violence and terror : motifs and motivations

1986 • 18 citations

Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda, a Spy's Story

2006 • 12 citations

The terrorists: Their weapons, leaders and tactics

1979 • 11 citations

Israel and the Arafat Question

2004 • 4 citations

The Balance of Terror: War by Other Means in the Contemporary Middle East

1998 • 2 citations

Karen Rasler

2007 • 1 citations