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The economic growth effects of terrorism have generally been examined in a cross-country framework where socio … terrorism on economic growth across provinces of Turkey for the time period 1987—2001. Following a traditional global … traditional convergence analysis reveals that terrorism hinders economic growth, GWR results indicate that its provincial effects …
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The association between religion and violence has raised much interest in both academic and public circles. Yet on the individual level, existing empirical accounts are both sparse and conflicting. Based on previous research which found that religion plays a role in the support of political...
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Terrorism is designed to draw attention to particular issues and causes. Yet, the incidence of credit … terrorist organizations make it difficult for the supporters of terrorism to reward the perpetrators of particular attacks with … organizations; the willingness of governments to respond to terrorism using military force; state sponsorship; the depth of communal …
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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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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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