Palestinian Liberation Organization, see PLO

Patriot Act, 50

Patterns of Global Terrorism, 38, 75

Peru, 102, 108

Pew polls, 25, 26, 152, 154

Philippines, 74, 102, 180

PIRA, 52

PLO, 32, 52

Pol Pot, 32

preemption, 6, 7, 17–20, 26, 28, 50, 95, 146, 151, 201n9

definition, 18, 199n16, 201n9

ethicist objections, 18, 19, 201n15

neoconservative perspective, 19, 20

realist objections, 19, 20

statements by Condoleeza Rice, 18, 28

statements by President G. W. Bush, 17, 19

process tracing, 93, 151, 214n14

Provisional Irish Republican Army, see PIRA

Putin, V., 24

RAND–MIPT terrorism database

background, 80

comparisons with ITERATE, 178–188

definition of terrorism, 81

reliability issues, 90–91

sources of data, 80

rational choice theory, 9, 43, 46–48, 58, 64, 96, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 199n28

reciprocity, 214n10

research results

limitations, 145, 146, 151

shifts in dispersion and location of incidents, 120–125, 144, 147, 148

shifts in frequency of incidents, 109–114, 144

shifts in lethality of incidents, 114–120, 144

shifts in perpetrators, 132–135, 149

shifts in type of attack, 125–127, 145, 148, 149

shifts in type of victim, 127–130, 148

shifts in U.S. victims, 130–132, 149

summary, 135–142

resource mobilization theory, 9, 36, 47, 48, 64, 96, 146, 149, 150

Rice, C., xix, 18, 28

Rumsfeld, D., 10, 18, 26, 41, 59, 204n38

Russia, 24, 102, 180

Saudi Arabia, 22, 25, 102, 180

Scowcroft, B., 19

Sierra Leone, 179

simulation, 93, 151, 211n63, 214n15

Sinn Fein, 156

soft power, 154

Somalia, 74, 101, 102, 167, 179, 180

South Africa, 55

Spain, 23, 52, 148, 180

Stalin, 31

strategic interaction theory, 9, 55, 56, 144, 150

and barbarism, 9, 53, 56, 66, 146, 150

strategy, 199n15