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Does democracy encourage terrorism
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The question of the linkage of democratic forms of government with the incidence of terrorist violence is explored in this paper, where evidence is presented clearly linking democracy with the presence of terrorist groups.Abstract:
The question of the linkage of democratic forms of government with the incidence of terrorist violence is explored. Distinguishing between the presence of terrorist groups in a nation and violent terrorist events, and using multiple indicators of democratic development, evidence is presented clearly linking democracy with the presence of terrorist groups. Terrorist groups are less likely to be found in non‐democratic settings than in democratic ones.read more
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The Political Economy of Terrorism
Walter Enders,Todd Sandler +1 more
TL;DR: The Political Economy of Terrorism as mentioned in this paper presents a widely accessible political economy approach to the study of terrorism, which applies economic methodology combined with political analysis and reality to study domestic and transnational terrorism.
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Does Democracy Promote or Reduce Transnational Terrorist Incidents
TL;DR: In this article, various mechanisms by which democracy affects transnational terrorism were studied and various theoretical mechanisms that either complement or encompass existing arguments were identified that either complemented or encompighed existing arguments.
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Economic Globalization and Transnational Terrorism: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis
Quan Li,Drew Schaub +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of economic globalization on the number of transnational terrorist incidents within countries was analyzed statistically, using a sample of 112 countries from 1975 to 1997, and the results show that economic globalization has a significant impact on transnational terrorism.
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What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy
TL;DR: The strategic model has widespread currency in the policy community; extant counterterrorism strategies seek to defeat terrorism by reducing its political utility as mentioned in this paper, and most common strategies are to fight terrorism by decreasing its political benefits via a strict no concessions policy, decreasing its prospective political benefits through appeasement, or decreasing its relative to nonviolence via democracy promotion.
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Incubators of Terror: Do Failed and Failing States Promote Transnational Terrorism?
TL;DR: This paper found that states plagued by chronic state failures are statistically more likely to host terrorist groups that commit transnational attacks, have their nationals commit trans-national attacks and are targeted by transnational terrorists themselves.
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Terrorism and democracy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the strengths of democracies (non-violent change through elections, open criticism in and by the media, courts that protect the weak against the strong) as well as their weaknesses (freedom of movement and association, abundance of accessible targets and a legal system that requires solid proof).
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
TL;DR: A Second Edition of Thomas Friedman's stunning book, From Beirut to Jerusalem as discussed by the authors, has been published and it has been added two additional chapters that bring the book up to 1995 and the unfolding - and stalling - of the Middle Eastern peace process.