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Highly-educated individuals are over-represented among violent operatives of insurgent organizations in the Middle East. This suggests four inter-related questions: (1) Why do those who seem to have good prospects willingly endanger their own lives? (2) What incentives drive these highly...
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This manuscript analyzes an important dynamic of far-right extremism in the United States. In particular, we seek to understand the relationship between the far-right and the military and how far-right groups have militarized. Using the 9/11 terror attacks and the subsequent war on terror as an...
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Governments fighting terrorists have many tactical options, yet these options often yield unintended and counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide bombers, and the society in which the terrorists are...
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same conclusion, suggesting that the adverse effect of Islamist terrorism on women' rights is causal. Further emphasizing … the role of violent Islamist fundamentalism, we find no evidence that Islam per se (as indicated by a country's Muslim … population share) affects the position of women in society. Finally, we show that left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism …
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Sub-Saharan Africa emerged in the past years as global epicentre of Islamist terrorism. The impact of terrorism on the … the poorly diversified development economies of African countries and the class-specific impact of terrorism on welfare … also increasing poverty, hunger and hardship for the poor and needy. Transnational terrorism amplifies both the negative …
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order, even at the risk of the rise of Islamic terrorism. Terrorist criminal pipelines and corrupt states have been … in counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations against Islamic terrorism in exchange for access to African … terrorism in SSA. Moscow is particularly interested in the Horn of Africa to control important trade routes of global importance. …
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