(the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism …What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9 …

(the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism …What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9 … avenue for future research than the available alternatives. -- terrorism ; international terrorism ; political instability …

The paper examines support for terrorism in public opinion and the relationship with terrorist attacks. We link the … justification in public opinion for suicide terrorism increases terror attacks on people in countries that are unfavorably regarded … suicide bombings and has an unfavorable opinion of another country, and terrorism originating from the former country. …

In this paper we estimate the macroeconomic consequences of terrorism using panel data for 147 countries for the period … 1968–2002. The results reveal that the potential gains to a country from reducing terrorism are quite large, although the … of terrorism on GDP, GDP growth, investment, consumer spending, and tourism. These estimates of the marginal impact of …

unsystematic. This study begins to remedy the problem, examining the broad relationships between weakness, failure, and terrorism … political context determining terrorism's use, that terrorism is endogenous to many measures of state failure, and that … estimates of the failure-related threat of terrorism are overstated. Consistent with these expectations, I find that most …