Terrorism as a self-organised criticality phenomenon

An examination of the heuristic capabilities of the self-organized criticality (SOC) theory for studying social processes, reviewing key ideas of the theory and the methods of identifying pink noise as an SOC attribute. The authors analyze terrorism in twenty countries in the period from 1970s to 20...

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Main Author: Barabasch, Natalia (Author)
Contributors: Zhukov, Dmitry
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
In: International journal of conflict and violence
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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