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Der 11. September und die Folgen in Asien: Politische Reaktionen in der VR China, Japan, Malaysia und Vietnam
Adelsberger, Karin; Derichs, Claudia; Heberer, Thomas; … - 2002
zeigen deutlich, dass Politik jenseits des geteilten Entsetzens über die Ausmaße des internationalen Terrorismus doch in …
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Video-recorded decapitations: A seemingly perfect terrorist tactic that did not spread
Harrow, Martin - 2011
Video-recorded decapitations have an enormous impact, they are cheap and easy, and they allow the terrorists to exploit the potential of the Internet. With these advantages, the tactic would have been expected to quickly spread across the globe as a favored tactic. Yet, years after its invention...
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Ökonomische Überlegungen zur Kameraüberwachung als Maßnahme gegen den Terrorismus
Stutzer, Alois; Zehnder, Michael - 2009
In recent times, camera surveillance or closed-circuit television (CCTV) as an instrument potentially deterring crime and terrorism has become a focus of the public discourse. CCTV might be the most rapidly spreading and, at the same time, one of the most disputed measures of contemporary public...
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Camera Surveillance as a Measure of Counterterrorism?
Stutzer, Alois; Zehnder, Michael - 2010
Camera surveillance has recently gained prominence in policy proposals on combating terrorism. We evaluate this instrument of counterterrorism as resting on the premise of a deterrence effect. Based on comparative arguments and previous evidence on crime, we expect camera surveillance to have a...
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On the heterogeneity of Terror
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Liebert, Helge; Schulze, Günther - 2012
The existing literature on the determinants of terrorism treats terror as a uniform phenomenon and does not distinguish between different types of terror. This paper explicitly addresses the heterogeneity of terror by classifying groups according to their ideologies. We show that the pattern of...
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The Effect of the Theo van Gogh Murder on House Prices in Amsterdam
Gautier, Pieter A.; Siegmann, Arjen; van Vuuren, Aico - 2007
This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo vanGogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with aunique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show that gen-eral attitudes towards Muslim minorities were negatively affected by themurder. Specifically,...
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Terrorist Targeting, Information, and Secret Coalitions
Koster, Maurice; Lindner, Ines; McCormick, Gordon; … - 2010
We consider a game played by a state sponsor of terrorism, a terrorist group, and the target of terrorist attacks. The sponsoring state wishes to see as much damage inflicted on the target of attack as possible, but wishes to avoid retaliation. To do so, his relationship with the terrorist group...
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity , Ethnicity, and War
van Praag, Bernard M.S.; Romanov, Dmitri; … - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
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September 11th and the Earnings of Muslims in Germany: The Moderating Role of Education and Firm Size
Cornelißen, Thomas; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2010
While available evidence suggests that the events of September 11th negatively influenced the relative earnings of employees with Arab background in the US, it is not clear that they had similar effects in other countries. Our study for Germany provides evidence that the events also affected the...
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Die ökonomischen Folgen des neuen globalen Terrorismus
Brück, Tilman - In: DIW Wochenbericht 69 (2002) 37, pp. 619-624
globalen Terrorismus betroffen. In diesem Bericht werden die ökonomischen Folgen der Attentate analysiert. Ein Jahr nach den … Anschlägen in New York und Washington am 11. September 2001 werden die ökonomischen Auswirkungen des neuen globalen Terrorismus … neuen globalen Terrorismus die Sicherheit einen zunehmenden Stellenwert erhalten wird. Dies führt zu höheren …
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