عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
TL52144
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Essays on Islamic State Foreign Fighters
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Morris, Andrea Michelle
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Lacina, Bethany
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Rochester
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2019
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
206 p.
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Body granting the degree
University of Rochester
Text preceding or following the note
2019
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
The dissertation consists of three essays on the foreign militants who joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The first essay examines the within-group role preference of ISIS soldiers. I look at the characteristics of the Islamic's States members who volunteer to be a suicide attacker instead of a fighter. I find that men who are less educated and have a basic knowledge of Islam are more likely to prefer to serve as a suicide attacker than a fighter. The results also show that men with previous combat experience and those are give large donations to ISIS are less likely to want to be a suicide attacker. The second essay takes a more typical approach to the study of terrorist participants and compares the demographic information of the ISIS foreign fighters to non-combatants from the same country in the Middle East. Consistent with past work on terrorist operatives, a university education is the strongest correlate of joining the Islamic State. In addition, an individual that holds an unskilled job but has a college education has a positive association with joining ISIS. This provides support in favor of the relationship between relative deprivation and extremism. Finally, this essay replicates well-known empirical findings on terrorist participants, such as age and marital status, using a new dataset and application. The third essay aggregates the individual ISIS foreign fighter observations up to the ethnic group level. I consider conventional explanations of ethnic conflict and determine whether they can extend to participation in ethno-transnational conflict. I find that income inequality is the strongest predictor of participation in foreign fighting. By contrast, political grievances have no association with transnational ethnic conflict. Overall, the results show that socio-economic grievances motivate foreign fighting.
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Civil war
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International organizations
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International relations
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Middle Eastern studies
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Military studies
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Minority & ethnic violence
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Peace
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Political science
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Politics
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Sociology
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Terrorism
Subject Term
Transnationalism
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Morris, Andrea Michelle
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Lacina, Bethany
CORPORATE BODY NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
University of Rochester
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
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[Thesis]
276903
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