Professor Erica Chenoweth Guest of the Global Connections Speaker Series

Does Democracy Still Encourage Terrorism? 

The National Security Affairs Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Erica Chenoweth for a special guest lecture as part of our Global Connections Speaker Series on Tuesday, October 25, 2016, at 1500 in the ME Auditorium.  All NPS students, faculty, and staff are invited. 

In this talk, Professor Chenoweth will explore a puzzling trend - that between 1970 and 2005 terrorist attacks occured more regularly in democracies than in non-democracies.  Since 2005, although terrorism has become less common in established democracies, it now troubles countries transitioning to democracy at higher rates than in other regime types.  Democracy is often thought to be the antidote to terrorism - a cure for restless people driven to violence to oppose repressive rule.  But the historical record discloses a much different story.  Terrorism has been, and widely remains, a phenomenon that is uniquely concentrated in democracies or countries aspiring to democracy. 

For information on Dr. Chenoweth see her webiste at http://www.ericachenoweth.com/