RT Article
T1 Lethal Beliefs: Ideology and the Lethality of Terrorist Organizations
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 35
IS 4
SP 811
OP 827
A1 Levy, Ido
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1844244024
AB Open-source data and studies indicate the higher lethality rates of jihadist groups versus other types of terrorist organizations. I argue jihadist groups are more lethal than other groups due to their higher ideological intensity, determined by observing how ideology corresponds to a group’s goals, internal cohesion, and external affinity. I use data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) and Revolutionary and Militant Organizations dataset (REVMOD) to create two samples of terrorist organizations coded by ideological affiliation. My findings confirm the higher lethality of jihadists in general and of apocalyptic jihadists in particular. Jihadist groups kill more per attack and have higher kill-wound ratios than other groups. Attachment to suicide terrorism largely accounts for higher jihadist lethality.
K1 lethality
K1 Ideology
K1 Jihad
K1 Terrorism
DO 10.1080/09546553.2021.1977282