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Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in politics and in rational choice analyses of … terrorism. However, there are two strategies that are superior to deterrence. The first one is to make terrorist attacks less …
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This study empirically investigates the impact of group characteristics and host country conditions on the duration and the ending of terrorist organizations and rebel groups. The empirical analysis relies on data for more than 600 armed groups from the Terrorist Organization Profiles, collected...
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to estimate utility losses caused by terrorist activities in France, the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Terrorism in … terrorism and income requires improved measurement of the marginal utility of income …
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That terrorist organisations come and go is a fact. This empirical fact tends to draw attention to the demise of the terrorist organisation and distracts from the dynamics of the terrorist organisation’s life cycle. In this respect, the extant literature suffers from a serious weakness that is...
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We report robust evidence of adverse cross-border externalities from terrorism on trade for over 160 countries from … 1976 to 2014. Terrorism in one country spills over to reduce trade in neighboring nations. These externalities arise from …
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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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terrorism’ through the application of economic analysis. Orthodox approaches, particularly (standard) expected utility analysis … terrorism …
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This paper develops a theory of political violence that is based on the rationality of individual agents. Violence is shown to be negatively related to the availability of alternative means of acquiring political goods and to the availability of alternative economic opportunities. Under quite...
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to estimate utility losses caused by terrorist activities in France, the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Terrorism in … terrorism and income requires improved measurement of the marginal utility of income …
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