Exploring global terrorism data

Lee, Joonghoon

doi:10.1145/1519390.1519393

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“…9 Consistent with the theoretical discussion of the previous section, the dependent variable is the annual total number of domestic and international terrorist events that occurred in a country, collected from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Explorer, a Webbased interactive visual exploratory tool that deals with systematic data about all types of terrorist incidents. 10 The GTD Explore was originally built on data from 1970 to 2004, but it is now expanded up to 2007 and includes over 85,000 cases of terrorist incidences (Lee 2008). 11 Although the GTD provides comprehensive terrorism data since 1970, the data for 1993 is missing due to an office move (LaFree and .…”

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confidence: 99%

Fighting Terrorism through the Rule of Law?

Choi

2010

Journal of Conflict Resolution

134

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The question of whether democratic institutions facilitate terrorist activities is a controversial one in current scientific studies of terrorism. Although the ''rule of law'' is an essential institutional pillar of any mature democracy, its direct effect on domestic and international terrorism remains unexplored. Conceiving democratic rule of law as the coexistence of effective and impartial judicial systems and citizens' recognition of the law as legitimate, the author presents a causal explanation in which a high-quality rule of law is considered to dampen ordinary citizens' opportunity and willingness to engage in political violence, protecting democracies from becoming victims of terrorism. Built on a cross-sectional, time-series data analysis of 131 countries during the period from 1984 to 2004, the author finds that, ceteris paribus, maintaining a sound rule of law notably reduces the likelihood of any type of terrorist events. In short, the rule of law instantiated in democratic institutions provides a formidable bulwark against terrorism. Keywords rule of law, democratic institutions, domestic and international terrorismThe question of how best to combat terrorism is one of today's most highly debated topics among academics, policy makers, and politicians alike. In particular, deterring terrorism is considered an important foreign policy objective for governments.

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confidence: 99%