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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 …
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Negative Returns : U.S. Military Aid, Domestic Institutions and Anti-American Terrorism
Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2019
Using cross-national data for 148 countries between 1996 and 2015, we investigate the relationship between U.S. military aid, institutions in aid-receiving countries and anti-American terrorism. We find that countries — such as Columbia and Pakistan — that receive more military aid from the...
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Does Income Inequality Lead to Terrorism? Evidence from the Post-9/11 Era
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2015
We study the influence of income inequality on terrorism. Using cross-national data for 79 countries for the 2002-2012 period, we show that endogeneity matters to the inequality-terrorism relationship, e.g., because of the distributional effects of terrorism. Once endogeneity is properly...
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Class Warfare : Political Exclusion of the Poor and the Roots of Social-Revolutionary Terrorism, 1860-1950
Klotzbücher, Valentin; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2021
We examine the effect of class cleavages on terrorist activity by anarchist and leftist terrorist groups in 99 American, Asian and European countries over the 1860-1950 period. We find that higher levels of political exclusion of the poor, our main measure of class conflict, were associated with...
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Terrorist Financing and Money Laundering
Krieger, Tim - 2011
Terrorism causes enormous costs to society. Since the 9/11 attacks, the “war on terror” has therefore been an important challenge to all civilized countries. In the present contribution we analyze the root causes and costs of terrorist activity, thereby setting the stage for discussing the...
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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...
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The Rise of Market-Capitalism and the Roots of Anti-American Terrorism
Krieger, Tim - 2013
We examine the role of market-capitalism in anti-American terrorism, differentiating between level- and rate-of-change-effects associated with market-capitalist development and their respective relationship with anti-U.S. violence. Using panel data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, we...
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How to Deal with International Terrorism
Krieger, Tim - 2014
Since the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington D.C., the fight against international terrorism has been a dominant issue in the political arena. Policy-makers (still) face the challenge to develop sound strategies for fighting this type of terrorist activity. Unfortunately, there is no...
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The Rise of Capitalism and the Roots of Anti-American Terrorism
Krieger, Tim - 2014
This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization...
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The Roots of Islamist Armed Struggle
Meierrieks, Daniel - 2014
This contribution studies the influence of poor politico-economic factors, unfavorable demographic conditions, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the onset of armed Islamist activity (i.e., Islamist terrorism and civil wars that involve Islamist...
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