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There is an increasing number of analyses of the effects of terrorism, especially its impact on public opinion. Most of …
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revisits the relationship between poverty and terrorism and suggests a new factor to explain patterns of domestic terrorism …: minority economic discrimination. Central to this study is the argument that because terrorism is not a mass phenomenon but … likely to experience terrorism. I also find minority economic discrimination to be a strong and substantive predictor of …
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While military protocol requires that POWs provide only name, rank, serial number, and date of birth (the so-called Big 4), it is naive to think that all detainees, including terrorists, behave in this fashion. Instead, there is evidence that detainees partially cooperate with their captors by...
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problems of terrorism, despite its poor empirical record. Using a game theoretic model, I demonstrate that US military aid … campaigns are ongoing, but will lose this aid once the problem of terrorism ceases, host states have little incentive to … terrorist groups out of power. These hypotheses are tested using the Jones & Libicki (2008) data on terrorism from 1997 to 2006 …
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, in turn, enhances economic performance. This article investigates the effect of terrorism on income, including its … indirect role through lowering trust. We consider terrorism as a factor that can increase the cost of investing in technology … World Values Survey and international terrorism incidence data from ITERATE. Using empirical tests, we first show that …
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Americans are a major target of international terrorism. Yet, terrorists from some countries are much more likely to … attack American citizens than terrorists from other countries. Similarly, anti-American terrorism from a specific foreign … terrorism, which argues that attacking foreign nationals is of strategic value to terrorists even if they ultimately aim at …
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Democratic regimes have been linked to terrorism for contending reasons, with some scholars claiming democracy … increases terrorism and others claiming it decreases terror. Corroborating evidence has been used for both relationships leading … to the following puzzle: why do some democratic regimes seem to foster terrorism while others do not? We offer an …
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Multilateral and diplomatic resolutions to intrastate conflicts are the preferred method of termination. However, mediated settlements tend toward failure and conflict recurrence. A significant factor in this failure is that government and groups are heterogeneous. While the demands, goals,...
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over state rents, so a gain for one group is a loss for another, making terrorism of members of out-groups rational. The …
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This article presents a dataset of fatalities of domestic terrorism in Western European countries for the period 1965 …-2005. The Domestic Terrorism Victims (DTV) dataset, unlike others such as TWEED or GTD1, is based on local sources in each … country and, consequently, it registers a higher number of killings. Measurement of the quantity of terrorism is therefore …
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