Economic conditions and terrorism

Blomberg, S. Brock

doi:10.1016/s0176-2680(04)00021-7

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“…For instance, Gurr (1970) argues economic disparity makes it more likely that individuals feel economically disadvantaged and resort to violence to enforce economic change, so that that poverty morphs into violence. Similarly, slow growth may feed into violent behavior because there are relatively fewer prospects of economic advancement and participation (e.g., employment) in poor economic times (Blomberg, Hess and Weerapana 2004). Also, economic integration may curtail economic opportunities of globalization 'losers' and trigger grievances against the existing economic order, thus potentially increasing the risk of terror (Harrison 2006).…”

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“…Investigating the targets of terrorism means to scrutinize the traits of countries targeted by terror, irrespective of the country of origin of the terrorists. Studies taking the target perspective are, e.g., Blomberg, Hess and Weerapana (2004), Tavares (2004) and Krueger and Laitin (2008). These studies suggest that economically successful countries are more often targeted by terrorism than poor economies.…”

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The origins of terrorism: Cross-country estimates of socio-economic determinants of terrorism

Freytag

Krüger

Meierrieks

et al. 2011

European Journal of Political Economy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Abstract:As a prerequisite of an appropriate anti-terror strategy, it is indispensable to assess the underlying causes of terror. We examine social and economic conditions in the country of origin of terrorist attacks, claiming that low opportunity costs of terror, e.g., approximated by slow growth and poor institutions raise the likelihood of terror and the willingness in the population to support terror. Using a negative binomial regression model, we are able to show that unfortunate socio-economic conditions in a country are likely to reduce the opportunity costs of potential terrorists and increase the number of terrorist attacks originating from a specific country. Interestingly, this effect is particularly relevant after a certain level of development has been reached. We therefore distinguish between several broad country groups, namely the OECD, Europe and Islamic countries.JEL classification: P16, F15, C25

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The origins of terrorism: Cross-country estimates of socio-economic determinants of terrorism

Freytag

Krüger

Meierrieks

et al. 2011

European Journal of Political Economy

240

169

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“…Many studies endeavour to clarify the direct and indirect determinants of terrorism (Abadie, 2005;Crenshaw, 1981;Newman, 2006;Freytag et al, 2011;McAllister and Schmid, 2011), though predictors of terrorism are often unclear factors in different societies (Krueger and Malečková, 2009). Some sources of terrorism are economic factors (Blomberg et al, 2004;Krueger and Malečková, 2003), political factors (Coggins, 2015), social factors (Krueger and Malečková, 2003), etc. However, whether and how demographic factors cause and sustain terrorism are hardly known.…”

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Terrorism Driven by High Population Growth

Coccia¹

2018

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“…al. found that economic contractions are positively correlated with increases in terrorist violence [17]. Honaker disaggregated Catholic and Protestant data in Ireland, and found that increases in Catholic unemployment led to increases in Republican violence, and increases in Protestant unemployment led to increases in Loyalist violence [18].…”

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The Impact of Food Consumption, Government Type and Effectiveness, on the Rate of Somali Maritime Piracy, 2000-2008

Rohrer¹

2011

Journal of Terrorism Research

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The analysis of maritime piracy off the Horn of Africa is still a developing area of academic research. The work that has been conducted to date has remained largely qualitative. Two recurring assumptions made but not empirically tested in this area of research are 1) the perceived link between government stability and the rate of maritime piracy, and 2) drought conditions implying food shortages in Somalia, and their impact on the rate of maritime piracy off the Horn of Africa The findings of this project show a strong increase in maritime piracy following the transition from assorted Islamic Courts to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG). However, variations in the consumption of staple foodstuffs, and an index of the World Bank Governance Indicators do not have a significant impact on the frequency of maritime piracy in the region. If maritime piracy off the Somali coast is to be eliminated, rather than policed, efforts should be made to encourage the development of governmental institutions that utilize culturally-respected institutions supported by the local populace.

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Economic conditions and terrorism

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The origins of terrorism: Cross-country estimates of socio-economic determinants of terrorism

The origins of terrorism: Cross-country estimates of socio-economic determinants of terrorism

Terrorism Driven by High Population Growth

The Impact of Food Consumption, Government Type and Effectiveness, on the Rate of Somali Maritime Piracy, 2000-2008

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