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This article presents a new dataset of indicators of political freedom, property rights and political instability for Zimbabwe for the period 1946 to 2005. The dataset is constructed by systematically coding the three concepts of political freedom, property rights and political instability along...
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We present what is, to the best of our knowledge, the first published set of annual out-of-sample forecasts of genocide and politicide based on a global dataset. Our goal is to produce a prototype for a real-time model capable of forecasting one year into the future. Building on the current...
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Interventions into civil conflicts have been the focus of considerable research in recent years, but one of the limitations to many studies has been the emphasis on interventions once a conflict begins. While important, we know that states and other actors often take action prior to the onset of...
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terrorism. Incidence of political violence fluctuated dramatically over the 230 years covered by the database, following a …
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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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