This paper provides an original study into how democratization and globalization influence terrorism - examining the … employ a gravity model to investigate the relative importance of globalization and democratization on transnational terrorism … source country significantly reduces terrorism. However, the advent of these same positive developments in targeted countries …

To better understand potential relationships between income and terrorism, we study data for 1,527 subnational regions … alternative specifications. The threat of terrorism systematically rises as low-income polities become richer, peaking at an … pattern emerges for domestic and transnational terrorism alike. Peaks in the income-terrorism relationship differ by …

What affects the choices of terrorism and counter-terrorism? New researchers interested in this field might feel … based on costs and benefits. We then explore behavioral and social approaches to the study of terrorism and counter-terrorism …

international World Values Survey data. We show that, in general, economically, politically and socially non-integrated persons are …

We examine the relationship between terrorism and cabinet duration. Our data set includes more than 2,400 cabinets in … over 150 countries in the period 1968-2002. We find a small, but significant effect of terrorism on the probability of … government failure. Furthermore, we find that the impact of terrorism depends on the type of attack and is larger in case of more …

What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9 … (the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism … avenue for future research than the available alternatives. -- Terrorism ; international terrorism ; political instability …

What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9 … (the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism … avenue for future research than the available alternatives. -- terrorism ; international terrorism ; political instability …