B. Hoffman

Publications
Influence

Trends In Outside Support For Insurgent Movements

D. Byman, P. Chalk, B. Hoffman, William Rosenau, David W. Brannan
Political Science
2001

Abstract : State support or sponsorship of an insurgency as an instrument of foreign policy was common during the Cold War. The United States, the Soviet Union, and a host of regional powers backed… Expand

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

H. ter Steege, N. Pitman, +117 authors M. Silman
Geography, Medicine
Science
18 October 2013

Introduction Recent decades have seen a major international effort to inventory tree communities in the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), but the vast extent and record diversity of these… Expand

Holy Terror : The Implications of Terrorism Motivated by a Religious Imperative

B. Hoffman
Psychology
1 December 1993

One of the distinguishing features of international terrorism the past fifteen years has been the resurgence and proliferation of terrorist groups motivated by a religious imperative. Such groups are… Expand

Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

C. Levis, F. R. C. Costa, +150 authors H. ter Steege
Geography, Medicine
Science
3 March 2017

Past human influences on Amazonian forest The marks of prehistoric human societies on tropical forests can still be detected today. Levis et al. performed a basin-wide comparison of plant… Expand

Importance Indices in Ethnobotany

B. Hoffman, T. Gallaher
Biology
31 December 2007

Measuring the “importance” of plants and vegetation to people is a central concern in quantitative ethnobotany. A common tool to quantify otherwise qualitative data in the biological and social… Expand

Steege Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

H. Steege, N. Pitman, +114 authors G. Lopez-Gonzalez
Biology
2013

, (2013); 342 Science et al. Hans ter Steege Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. clicking here. colleagues, clients, or customers by ,… Expand

Terrorism, Signaling, and Suicide Attack

B. Hoffman, Gordon H. McCormick
Engineering
1 July 2004

This article examines the strategic utility of suicide terrorism. Suicide terrorism, we suggest, can be thought of as a form of strategic "signaling." We define terrorism as a signaling game in which… Expand

COUNTERING NEW TERRORISM

Ian O. Lesser, B. Hoffman, John Arquilla, D. Ronfeldt, M. Zaninl
Political Science, Engineering
1998

RAND's research on terrorism formally began in 1972. Two bloody terrorist incidents that year - the Japanese Red Army attack on passengers at the Lod Airport in Israel and the seizure of Israeli… Expand

Rethinking Terrorism and Counterterrorism Since 9/11

B. Hoffman
Engineering
1 September 2002

This article examines what has been learned since 11 September 2001 about the nature of twenty-first-century terrorism, the challenges that it poses, and how it must be countered. It attempts to… Expand

Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq

B. Hoffman
Engineering
1 March 2006

The United States has long been frustrated in fighting insurgencies. An almost unbroken string of mostly ill-fated experiences in effectively prosecuting this unique blend of political-military… Expand

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