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Looking back on anger : explaining the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in Western Europe, 1970 - 2007
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529557
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Great expectations and hard times - the (nontrivial) impact of education on domestic terrorism
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529567
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Looking back on anger : explaining the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in Western Europe, 1970-2007
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2012
A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in 17 Western European countries between 1970 and 2007. We argue that the differences in the historic roots, ultimate goals as well as their negotiability, levels of domestic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532676
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Great expectations and hard times : the (nontrivial) impact of education on domestic terrorism
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2012
This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism in a cluster of countries where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535092
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Looking Back on Anger : Explaining the Social Origins of Left-Wing and Nationalist - Separatist Terrorism in Western Europe, 1970-2007
Brockhoff, Sarah - 2012
A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in 17 Western European countries between 1970 and 2007. We argue that the differences in the historic roots, ultimate goals as well as their negotiability, levels of domestic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107350
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Armut, Ungleichheit, wirtschaftliche Schwäche? Empirische Evidenz und methodische Herausforderungen zum Zusammenhang von Ökonomie und Terrorismus
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 4, pp. 29-40
Wachstumsschwäche) als Gründe für die Entstehung und den Export von Terrorismus aus ärmeren Ländern genannt. Zugleich gelten … wirtschaftlich erfolgreiche Staaten häufig als Ziele des Terrorismus. In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wird aufgezeigt, dass und … Überschätzung ökonomischer Einflüsse auf den Terrorismus resultieren kann. Weiterhin wird argumentiert, dass auch die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377904
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Income inequality, redistribution and domestic terrorism
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 116 (2019), pp. 125-136
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129823
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Negative returns : U.S. military policy and anti-american terrorism
Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2017
We investigate the effect of U.S. military aid and U.S. troop deployments on anti-American terrorism, using a sample of 106 countries between 1986 and 2011. We find that greater military commitment leads to more anti-American terrorism. We study the underlying mechanisms using a mediation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756796
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"Pay for it heavily" : does U.S. support for Israel lead to anti-American terrorism?
Meierrieks, Daniel; Gries, Thomas - In: Defence and peace economics 31 (2020) 2, pp. 160-176
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200645
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Paying them to hate US: the effect of U.S. military aid on anti-American terrorism, 1968-2014
Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2020 - This version: July 2020
Does U.S. military aid make the United States safer? To answer this question, we collect data on 173 countries between 1968 and 2014. Exploiting quasi-random variation in the global patterns of U.S. military aid, our paper is the first to provide causal estimates of the effect of U.S. military...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240668