摘要：The past decade has witnessed an increasing number of articles on the organizational di- mension to terrorism. Much of the theoriz- ing focuses on the instrumental, strategic, and tactical logic of political violence. The underlying conditions that give rise to the onset of campaigns garners relatively little attention. There is also little emphasis with- in the academic literature for the specific onset of suicide bombings. Using mecha- nism analysis, this paper highlights one environmental mechanism that leads to the onset of suicide bombings. It is an environ- mental mechanism because it relates to dy- namics externally produced from the orga- nization. It affects the socio-political clima- te and the militant group within it. This pa- per argues that a suddenly imposed grievan- ce that accentuates the perceptions of asym- metry in the conflict spurs the organization to innovate tactically. Suicide bombings le- ssen the perceived asymmetry tactically, strategically and normatively. Drawing upon illustrative examples, this paper illus- trates the dynamic process through which organizations decide to first use this particu- lar type of violence.
关键词：atentado suicida; guerra asimétrica; terrorism [suicide bombing; asymmetric warfare; ;terrorism]
