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 …

This paper examines whether terrorism is an effective tool to achieve political goals. By exploiting variation in … response to terror. Hence, terrorism appears to be an effective strategy in terms of shifting the entire Israeli political … landscape to the left. These findings may shed light on the causes underlying the spread of global terrorism in the last few …

prominently, commanding 30% of current defense R&D spending, versus just about 13% for intelligence and anti-terrorism. The second …, and the extent to which security against terrorism is (still) a public good. I develop for that purpose a simple model of … terrorism, cast in a nested discrete choice framework. Two strategies are considered: fighting terrorism at its source, and …

This paper uses scoring matching techniques and event study analysis to elucidate the impact of terrorism across … that belong to the defence, security or anti-terrorism related industries and other companies. The findings show that … whereas terrorism has a significant negative impact on non defence-related companies, the overall effect of terrorism on …