Journal Article - Quarterly Journal: International Security

Do U.S. Drone Strikes Cause Blowback? Evidence from Pakistan and Beyond

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  • Aqil Shah
| Spring 2018

Summary

Does anger about U.S. drone strikes lead individuals to join militant Islamist groups, as many policy analysts and scholars have claimed? A recent survey of residents of Pakistan’s North Waziristan Agency, heavily targeted by drone strikes, along with interviews and secondary sources, suggests that drone strikes have little effect on militant recruitment in Pakistan or internationally.

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Aqil Shah, "Do U.S. Drone Strikes Cause Blowback? Evidence from Pakistan and Beyond," International Security, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Spring 2018), pp. 47–84, doi:10.1162/ISEC_a_00312.

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