Deck 5: Economics of Terrorism

Question 1

What are a nation's four sources of power?

Answer 1

A nation's four sources of power are diplomacy, information, military, and the economy.

Question 2

What are some of the factors that determine the presence of terrorism?

Answer 2

Factors that determined the presence of terrorism are armed conflict, governmental political violence, political exclusion, and group grievances.

Question 3

What are some of the research paths to analyzing terrorism?

Answer 3

There are many research paths, such as characteristics of terrorist groups, individual characteristics of terrorists, methods of terrorism, terroristic targets, and counterterrorism.

Question 4

What is terrorism?

Question 5

What is a terrorism organization?

Question 6

What is a terrorist?

Question 7

Who makes up the international community in regard to terrorism?

Question 8

What is intelligence in regard to terrorism?
Intelligence is the collection of information useful for defense and policy making.

Question 9

What are the different types of terrorism by location?

Question 10

How is s soft target different from a hard target in regard to terrorism?

Question 11

What is counterterrorism (or counter-terrorism)?

Question 12

What are the purposes of counterterrorism?

Question 13

What are some of the counterterrorism processes?

Question 14

What are some of the types of terrorism as defined by the terrorist organization's goals?

Question 15

What are some of the means of committing terrorist acts?

Question 16

Is terrorism a human rights violation?

Question 17

How did United States' counterterrorism policy change from before and after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks?

Question 18

What is the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001?

Question 19

Which federal department was created by the Homeland Security Act of 2002?

Question 20

What is the United Kingdom's counterterrorism policy?

Question 21

What is Canada's counterterrorism policy, based upon the 2015 Anti-Terrorist Act (Bill C-51)?

Question 22

What is France's counterterrorism policy?

Question 23

What is Australia's counterterrorism policy, based on the 2004 and 2005 Australian Anti-Terrorism Acts?

Question 24

What is Saudi Arabia's counterterrorism policy?

Question 25

What is Israel's counterterrorism policy?

Question 26

Which of the articles of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) may be violated due to terrorist activity?

Question 27

What is the difference between human rights law and international humanitarian law?

Question 28

How is a freedom fighter different than a terrorist?

Question 29

What is lone wolf terrorism?

Question 30

What is state terrorism?

Question 31

What other power may be used in counterterrorism besides military power?

Question 32

What are the four counterterrorism policy changes that Former FBI agent Michael German proposes (U.S. News and World Report, October 26, 2016)?

Question 33

What was the first national intelligence service in the United States?

Question 34

What are some types of intelligence gathering?

Question 35

Who are the decision makers involved in terrorism?

Question 36

Do terrorist organizations operate in isolation?

Question 37

What are two types of militants that a terrorist organization may try to recruit?

Question 38

What are some of the decisions that must be made by governments and non-government agencies dealing with terrorism?

Question 39

What are some of the primary effects of terrorism?

Question 40

What are some of the secondary effects of terrorism?

Question 41

What are some of the tertiary effects of terrorism?

Question 42

How is game theory used to model terrorism or counterterrorism?

Question 43

What are some of the costs to a terrorist organization?

Question 44

What is the "terrorist's dilemma" as proposed by Jacob Shapiro (2013)?

Question 45

What are some costs to the individual who decides to join a terrorist organization?

Question 46

What are some of the direct costs to the victims of terrorist attacks?

Question 47

What are some of the indirect costs of terrorism?

Question 48

What are some of the costs of counterterrorism efforts?

Question 49

What is the economic way a nation could make the optimal choice of the amount of counterterrorism activity to use in relation to the amount of terrorism damage to allow?

Question 50

How can increased media attention benefit terrorist organizations?

Question 51

What are some of the benefits to the individual who participates in terrorist activity?

Question 52

What are some of the benefits to individuals, businesses, and political officials that work with the terrorists, either voluntarily or under duress?

Question 53

How have economists suggested counterterrorism activity be done?

Question 54

What are the three reasons that terrorist organizations terminate according to the Global Terrorism Index 2017?

Question 55

When would the leaders of a terrorist organization choose to expand the number of terrorists used in their operations?

Question 56

What particular incentives would cause an individual choose to become a terrorist?

Question 57

When is it efficient to expand terrorism efforts?

Question 58

When is it efficient to expand counterterrorism efforts?

Question 59

How would the geographic features of an area lead to the use of certain terroristic methods by terrorists?

Question 60

What specific types of training might be used by terrorists and by those involved in counterterrorism?