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a certain level of development has been reached. We therefore distinguish between the OECD, Europe and Islamic countries …
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This contribution studies the influence of poor politico-economic factors, unfavorable demographic conditions, state failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the onset of armed Islamist activity for 155 countries...
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same conclusion, suggesting that the adverse effect of Islamist terrorism on women' rights is causal. Further emphasizing … the role of violent Islamist fundamentalism, we find no evidence that Islam per se (as indicated by a country's Muslim … population share) affects the position of women in society. Finally, we show that left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism …
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We investigate whether the stock of foreigners residing in a country leads to a larger number of terrorist attacks on that country. Our instrument for the stock of foreigners relies on the interaction of two sets of variables. Variation across host-origin-dyads results from structural...
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goals with non-violent as compared to violent means, distinguishing terrorism from insurgencies. It is hypothesized that …
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international terrorism at the top of the agenda of European policy-makers. This paper analyzes the costs of terrorism in the … European Union from both a theoretical and empirical perspective in order to evaluate counter-terrorism policies by comparing … predispositions typically result in a biased perception of the risk of terrorism leading to too high a demand for counter-terrorism …
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