Category Archives: Security and Terrorism

Crime and Punishment: Jeff Jacoby comment

Posted on August 30, 2016 by moshe

Here is highly recommended article written by Jeff Jacoby on punishment deterrence capacity and his link onexcellent collection of scientific articles on the issue. Classical paper by Isaak Ehrlich (1975) must be added to the above mentioned list of papers. BTW, both, dead … Continue reading →

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Revisiting US military Aid for Israel: new voices of concern

Posted on July 27, 2016 by moshe

More and more people publicly share their concern about incentives caused by US military aid for Israel. The problem we had discussed since 2011 (Yanovskiy Moshe, US Aid for Israel – A Historical Overview (version on March 3, 2014). Ex-ambassador Yoram Ettinger … Continue reading →

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To Kill Hope? In Search of a Reliable Strategy to Fight Terrorism

Posted on March 14, 2016 by moshe

New paper’s ‘To Kill Hope? In Search of a Reliable Strategy to Fight Terrorism’ draft is uploaded for critics in free access at ssrn: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2745935 Nor does history of Israel suggest any reasonable expectation that terrorists will be appeased by … Continue reading →

Posted in Elections and Politics in Israel, Pure vs. Mixed Public Goods, Security and Terrorism | Tagged History of Israel, History of Terrorism against Jews and Israel, Middle East conflict | Comments Off

Notes on New and Old Military Justice, Army’s ethics & Morale

Posted on July 5, 2015 by moshe

Modern military Justice punishes officers and soldiers of democratic nations’ armies for their military success. “Excessive use of force” and similar artificial judicial constructions undermine incentives of army officers, making the military machine virtually inoperative. Artificially abridged Army capability prevents … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign Policy & Intl relations, Pure & Mixed Public goods, Pure public goods, Security and Terrorism | Tagged Law of War, Military Justice, Political economy, Political Science, Quakity Pure public goods | Comments Off

Revisiting Terrorism studies: new papers’ 1st draft

Posted on January 19, 2015 by moshe

We had started a series of short studies of terrorism “supply” and counter-terrorism “under-supply” incentives since 2004. After few years of break we returned to the issue starting with well forgotten story: how Oslo “peace” process was explained and advocated … Continue reading →

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