ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relationship between generalized and particularized interpersonal trust and support for terrorism in the Arab world. Support for terrorism, in this sense, is not necessarily active support for terrorism in the form of financial assistance or participation in the operational aspects of terrorism, but, rather, approval of the use of terrorism as a tool to further political, economic, or social objectives that align with the preferences of an individual. The chapter explores the relationship between generalized and particularized interpersonal trust and support for the use of terrorism itself as a tool. It analyses the hypothesis that generalized interpersonal trust reduces support for terrorism, and particularized trust increases support for terrorism, via the specification of an ordered probit regression model that will be run on survey data from the Middle East and North Africa.
