Targeted Killings, Law and Counter-Terrorism Effectiveness: Does Fair Play Pay Off? by Ophir Falk

Author:Ophir Falk [Falk, Ophir]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Israel & Palestine, Strategy, Military, Political Science, Middle East, History, Afghan War (2001-), Terrorism, Security (National & International)
ISBN: 9780367339265
Google: u8PoDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 51635355
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-07-08T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 3.2 Suicide bombings and targeted killing comparison

The advantage of this methodology is that it allows the examination of different trend lines for each set of observations, as described above, while also determining an overall trend. In addition, the effects of specific targeted killings (TKs) can be further described/quantified by adding dummy variables which provide further information about each TK event. We added two dummy variables mentioned earlier: the first distinguishes between TKs that were carried out in the Gaza strip and TKs that were carried out elsewhere—94 TKs out of total number of 213 TKs (44%) were carried out in the Gaza strip. There were 54 months (53.4%) in which TKs were carried out in the Gaza strip, across the 101 months in the final dataset. The second dummy variable distinguished between a target that was an ideologist or political leader, versus other militants. About 8% of the months with TKs included either political or ideological targets—those targets will be detailed below. Finally, we added to the model a variable identifying the number of TKs in each month. A unique aspect of this longitudinal modeling framework is the identification (or inclusion) of relationships between the time-dependent variables, in this case, the correlations between measurement errors of the three time points.64

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