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terrorist leaders to influence their followers. From our model approaches to counter terrorism on both the leadership as well as …
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Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...
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This paper argues that UN military interventions are geographically biased. For every 1,000 kilometers of distance from the three Western permanent UNSC members (France, UK, US), the probability of a UN military intervention decreases by 4 percent. We are able to rule out several alternative...
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This paper argues that UN military interventions are geographically biased. For every 1,000 kilometers of distance from the three Western permanent UNSC members (France, UK, US), the probability of a UN military intervention decreases by 4 percent. We are able to rule out several alternative...
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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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For a standard competitive trade model, the authors show that the incidence of terrorism in different nations can … affect the pattern of trade. Nations with a greater incidence of terrorism will export goods that are more immune to … terrorism-related disruptions, while importing more terrorism-impacted goods. In addition, terrorism can be welfare augmenting …
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We present a standard trade model and show that terrorism can be trade inducing, starting from autarky. In addition …, terrorism can be shown to be welfare augmenting for a group of nations. Finally, we present some qualitative conditions that … identify when a nation's trade volume may rise (or fall) in response to a greater incidence of terrorism. Our trade and welfare …
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paper analyzes the impact of terrorism on international trade by examining a series of three large-scale terrorist incidents …
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of violence and terrorism. The economic cost of terrorism and counter-terrorism must be taken serious note of. The … potentially rich tourism industry of Kashmir is very badly hit by the terrorism industry. Terrorism once a companion of history is … the concept of terrorism, also tries to examine the economic implications of terrorism. We plea for establishing a just …
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