Regime Types and Terrorism

Gaibulloev, Khusrav; Piazza, James A.; Sandler, Todd

doi:10.1017/s0020818317000169

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“…Behind this underpinning is the logic that, in so far as citizens have peaceful channels by which conflicts can be resolved at their disposal, options of terrorism are less likely to be considered as means to conflict settlement. This is consistent with some studies which have established that "weakly institutionalized" or "immature" democracies with less institutionalized minority protection and substantial violations in human rights create a favorable environment for terrorism (Gaibulloev et al, 2017). In the light of this postulation, we expect countries with better political governance to be less affected by terrorism because they offer peaceful mechanisms for the settlement of politico-economic scores.…”

Section: Linkage Between Political Governance/stability and Terrorismsupporting

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Fighting Terrorism in Africa When Existing Terrorism Levels Matter

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This study examines policy tools in the fight against terrorism when existing levels of terrorism matter in 53 African countries for the period 1998-2012. The empirical evidence is based on contemporary, non-contemporary and Instrumental Variable Quantile regressions (QR) which enable the investigation throughout the conditional distributions of domestic, transnational and total terrorism dynamics. The following findings are established. First, counterterrorism policy instruments of inclusive human development and military expenditure further fuel terrorim. Second, political stability negatively affects terrorism with a negative threshold effect. Political stability estimates are consistently significant with increasing negative magnitudes throughout the conditional distributions of domestic and total terrorism. Policy implications are discussed. JEL Classification: C52; D74; F42; O16; O38

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Section: Linkage Between Political Governance/stability and Terrorismsupporting

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Fighting Terrorism in Africa When Existing Terrorism Levels Matter

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“…Most of the bombings in Afghanistan and Iraq following 9/11 are not included in the standard event data sets. For 1970-2012, Gaibulloev, Piazza, and Sandler (2017) indicate that 70 percent of all terrorist attacks occurred in countries that did not experience a civil conflict.…”

Section: Terrorism Insurgency and Civil Warmentioning

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What We Have Learned about Terrorism since 9/11

Gaibulloev

Sandler²

2019

Journal of Economic Literature

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This overview examines critically the post-9/11 empirical literature on terrorism. Major contributions by both economists and political scientists are included. We focus on five main themes: the changing nature of terrorism, the organization of terrorist groups, the effectiveness of counterterrorism policies, modern drivers or causes of terrorism, and the economic consequences of terrorism. In so doing, we investigate a host of questions that include: How do terrorist groups attract and retain members? What determines the survival of terrorist groups? Is poverty a root cause of terrorism? What counterterrorism measures work best? In the latter regard, we find that many counterterrorism policies have unintended negative consequences owing to attack transference and terrorist backlash. This suggests the need for novel policies such as service provision to counter some terrorist groups’ efforts to provide such services. Despite terrorists’ concerted efforts to damage targeted countries’ economies, the empirical literature shows that terrorism has had little or no effect on economic growth or GDP except in small terrorism-plagued countries. At the sectoral level, terrorism can adversely affect tourism and foreign direct investment, but these effects are rather transient and create transference of activities to other sectors, thus cushioning the consequences. (JEL F21, F52, H56, K42, Z31)

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“… Gaibulloev, Piazza, and Sandler () and Younas and Sandler () adopt the measure of transnational terrorism constructed by Enders et al. ().…”

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Terrorism and international air travel: A gravity approach

Mitra¹,

Pham

Bandyopadhyay

2018

World Economy

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We present a theoretical model (adapted from the structural gravity model by Anderson and van Wincoop, American Economic Review, 93, 2003, 170) to capture the effects of terrorism on air passenger traffic between nations affected by terrorism. We then use equations derived from this model, in conjunction with alternative functional forms for trade costs, to estimate the effects of terrorism on bilateral air passenger service flows from 58 source countries to 26 destination countries during 2000–14. An additional small‐scale terrorist incident in the origin country and destination country together results in a reduction in bilateral air passenger travel by, at least, 1.3% and 0.81%, respectively, for pairs of countries located 1,000 and 2,000 km or less apart. The adverse impact of transnational terrorism is approximately five times larger. Terrorism adversely impacts bilateral air passenger travel both by reducing national output and especially by increasing psychological distress. Last but not the least, international air passenger travel is found to be extremely sensitive to fatal terrorist attacks and terrorist attacks on targets such as airports, travel or tourists.

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Regime Types and Terrorism

Cited by 115 publications

References 59 publications

Fighting Terrorism in Africa When Existing Terrorism Levels Matter

Fighting Terrorism in Africa When Existing Terrorism Levels Matter

What We Have Learned about Terrorism since 9/11

Terrorism and international air travel: A gravity approach

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