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An analytical history of terrorism, 1945–2000
Shughart, William - In: Public Choice 128 (2006) 1, pp. 7-39
This paper traces the history of modern terrorism from the end of the Second World War to the beginning of the twenty …-first century. It divides that history into three stylized waves: terrorism in the service of national liberation and ethnic … separatism, left-wing terrorism, and Islamist terrorism. Adopting a constitutional political economy perspective, the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005709242
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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism
Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2002
development of fundamentalist groups. In this paper we develop a theory of fundamentalism and terrorism under which leaders …Fundamentalist organizations and the terrorists they spawn do not arise of a vacuum. Combating terrorism requires …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005750177
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The UN Goldstone Report and Retraction: An Empirical Investigation
Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2014
The United Nations Goldstone Report criminalized self-defense against state sponsored or state-perpetrated terror. We use voting on the two UN General Assembly resolutions relating to the Goldstone Report to study whether support for the Goldstone principle of criminalization of self-defense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185596
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The UN Goldstone Report and Retraction: An Empirical Investigation
Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2015
The United Nations Goldstone Report criminalized self-defense against state-sponsored or state-perpetrated terror. We use voting on the two UN General Assembly resolutions relating to the Goldstone Report to study whether support for the Goldstone principle of criminalization of self-defense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194235
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CONSECRATION OF THE CONCEPT OF “CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY” AND “SUPREME VALUES” PROVIDED IN ARTICLE 1 OF THE ROMANIAN CONSTITUTION REPUBLISHED AND ALSO THROUGH THE CONSTITUTIONAL CO...
VALEA, Daniela Cristina - In: Curentul Juridic, The Juridical Current, Le Courant … 58 (2014) September, pp. 28-38
Any human society needs an organizational framework for running the activity. In the broadest sense, this framework is the state. The revised Constitution of Romania practically sets a few coordinates for this framework respectively “the constitutional democracy” (Romania being characterized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934505
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Economic and security consequences of supreme values
Hillman, Arye - In: Public Choice 131 (2007) 3, pp. 259-280
Islamic societies have in contemporary times lagged Western societies in income, growth, and human-development indicators. The supreme values of radical Islam further de-prioritize economic achievement and impose self-deprivation on own populations. This paper investigates the reasons for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005542658
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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism
Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers’ observance level. We model three stylized situations under which fundamentalist groups function, examining the intensity of observance in each. We find that, under reasonable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822598
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Leadership and Phobia
Dawoody, Alexander - Facultatea de Administraţie Publică, Şcoala … - 2010
misusing language in fighting terrorism. This examination will qualitatively analyze the impact of categorizing the world … terrorism in the post September 11 era and the impact of such expression on the success and effectiveness of the policy. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009141489
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The War on Terror between Islamphobia and Reconstructing Reality
Dawoody, Alexander - Facultatea de Administraţie Publică, Şcoala … - 2007
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States launched a "war on terror" to retaliate against the perpetrators of these attacks. As a consequence, the Bush Administration launched a military campaign against Iraq, and end up occupying the country. To rationalize its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009141504
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Abusing Cultural Freedom: coercion in the name of God
Kadt, Emanuel de - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 6 (2005) 1, pp. 55-76
discussed. The main focus is on coercive religion and fundamentalism, but some attention is paid to factors common to all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277537