Eli Berman: 2 books
Radical, Religious, and Violent
The New Economics of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Applying fresh tools from economics to explain puzzling behaviors of religious radicals: Muslim, Christian, and Jewish; violent and benign.
How do radical religious sects run such deadly terrorist organizations? Hezbollah, Hamas, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Taliban all began as religious groups...
Small Wars, Big Data
The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today’s conflicts more effectively
The way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between large armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find major powers...