Entity-elimination or threat management?: Explaining Israel’s shifting policies towards terrorist semi-states

Israel’s policy towards both terrorist semi-states (TSS)—Fatahland and Hamas-controlled Gaza—shows a puzzling variation over time between threat-management (i.e., deterrence and/or brute force capacity-reduction) and entity-elimination. We hold that a military-based cost-benefit analysis cannot full...

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Authors: Honig, Or Arthur (Author) ; Yahel, Ido (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Terrorism and political violence
Year: 2020, Volume: 32, Issue: 5, Pages: 901-920
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