CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Isbasaran, Volkan |
|---|---|
| Title | The Domino Theory and Islamist Terrorism |
| Summary | This dissertation focuses on the domino theory, which guided US policy makers during the Cold War and its' applicability into Islamist terrorism. The idea of domino theory suggests that political events in a country can spread to adjacent countries and during the Cold War, the US claimed that unless the “domino stone of Communism” was stopped in Vietnam, all of Asia and Pacific would turn towards Communism. The Fall of Kabul to the hands of the Taliban in 2021 led to a comparison of the events in Afghanistan and Vietnam, thus this thesis raises the question of whether domino theory could be applied to the cases of terrorism. Even though this theory was tested for many ideologies besides Communism, the research combining the elements of both domino theory and terrorism have been limited. This thesis aims to find out the rate of domino effect observed between the countries which were affected the most by Islamist terrorism and their neighboring countries. The thesis covers the 40-year period between 1979 and 2019 and it focuses on the 12 countries which were affected the most by it and whether Islamist terrorism indeed fell like dominoes around the region. |
| Supervisor | Bogaards, Matthijs |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/isbasaran_volkan.pdf |
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