MILLER Gregory D <br/><br/>
Confronting terrorisms:  group motivation and successful state policies/ 
Gregory D Miller 
 -  2007 
<br/><br/> Policymakers and recent studies focuses on how states should respond to terrorism.  Whether harsh policies should be employed in order to punish terrorists hence deterring terrorist acts; or concentrate on the root causes and reduce the incentives to use terrorism.  What is often ignored is the characteristics that distinguish one terrorist group from another as this influence the effectiveness of a state's actions.  This article examines the group motivation such as national separatism, revolution, reaction, or religion, as one key trait and finds that these different "terrorisms" affect the relative success of various counterterrorist policies. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>COUNTER TERRORISM