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Sanchez-Cuenca, Ignacio. "Killing for something? A new approach to the analysis of target selection in terrorist organizations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211277_index.html>

Sanchez-Cuenca, I. , 2007-08-30 "Killing for something? A new approach to the analysis of target selection in terrorist organizations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211277_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: In order to understand the aims, strategies and constraints under which terrorist organizations act, we have to analyze carefully their actions. Some terrorist organizations carry out indiscriminate attacks, some others opt for selective killings. Some terrorist organizations focus on attacks against the State, some others attack social groups. To shed light on this variation, we propose in this paper a new methodological approach to the analysis of target selection. Going beyond gathering information about objective traits of the victims, we connect the selection of the victim with the aims and strategies of terrorist organizations. Thus, we codify information about victims in two different variables. One has to do with the selectivity of the killing -the “how” of the attack. The other, with the strategic aim of the killing –the “why” of the attack. Building on those two variables, we propose a codification scheme general enough to fit the violence of different types of terrorism. To illustrate our methodology, we have created an exhaustive dataset of terrorist killings for three types of terrorism in three Western European countries (Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom). In total, we have collected detailed evidence, based on local sources, on 3,230 fatalities for the period 1965-2005. We consider cases of (i) revolutionary or left-wing terrorism (Red Brigades, GRAPO); (ii) ethno-nationalist terrorism (ETA, IRA); (iii) and fascist or right-wing terrorism (Nar, Ordine Nero). To make sense of the data, we suggest six propositions that may account for the unearthed variance in target selection within terrorist organizations.

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