Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
A growing movement of foreign fighters to Ukraine has attracted considerable numbers of white supremacist group members, many from the U.S. What does this mean for U.S. national security? In 2017, James Fields rammed a car into a crowd of counterprotesters at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one and injuring […]
This article reviews theories on why some terrorist groups adopt the tactic and gives special attention to groups that could have, but did not, adopt suicide tactics. It concludes the “culture of martyrdom” explanation best accounts for an organization’s choice to use this tactic. Whether by carbomb or hijacked airplane, why terrorist groups carry out […]