“…In essence, while economic openness consists of both trade openness and financial openness, there is some consensus in the literature that trade openness has less detrimental macroeconomic outcomes when compared to financial openness in developing countries (Rodrik & Subramanian, 2009;Asongu, 2014Asongu, , 2017Price & Elu, 2014;Motelle & Biekpe, 2015). It follows that the positive rewards of trade openness may decrease the propensity of citizens to resort to terror tactics as a means of voicing their concerns on the questionable benefits of economic globalization.…”