CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Asymova, Gulnisa Nurmuhamedovna |
|---|---|
| Title | Rational Irrationality: Nature of Suicide Bombers Choice |
| Summary | This thesis studies the phenomenon of the suicide bombers’ choice. There have been many studies made in analyzing the terrorist organizations but fewer talking about the individual level of decision-making. In this thesis I show that one of the prominent theories of choice explanation – rational choice theory – is not capable of explaining this phenomenon to the fullest need. Are the suicide bombers rational, or are they fanatics? None of the options available in the area are absolutely right and it is important to find out to what extent each of the major theories is useful in explaining suicide bombers’ choice. A method of literature and available data analysis is used for creating a new approach to explain the phenomenon. As the result the black box framework is proposed, where black box is a metaphor, referred to a motivation system of an individual which in part is influenced by psychological and sociological conditions. The black box model stresses the need of combination of views that exist in explanation of the suicide attackers’ motives for the sake of having a tool with stronger explanation power of the phenomenon. |
| Supervisor | Moles, Andres Velazquez |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/asymova_gulnisa.pdf |
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