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failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the …
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This contribution examines the role of market-capitalism in anti-American terrorism. It differentiates between level …-peace literature coincide with less anti-American terrorism, it also suggests that the process of marketization has inflammatory … effects on anti-American terrorism. Using panel data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution indeed finds …
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This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which could explain their increased popularity among terrorist...
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of terrorism, as well as internal and external conflict is equivalent to as much as a 30 percent tariff on trade. This is …
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When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …
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We perform an empirical investigation of the macroeconomic consequences of international terrorism and interactions … observations on 177 countries from 1968 to 2000, which brings together information from the Penn World Table dataset, the ITERATE … panel growth regression analysis and a structural VAR model. We find that, on average, the incidence of terrorism may have …
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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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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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The objective of this paper is to examine whether terror attacks that took place in the Eurozone in the 21st century had a significant effect on the price of the Euro. Its novelty is twofold: it is the first study that assesses the impact of such events on the price of the Euro and employs a...
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