Terrorism, Economic Development, and Political Openness: Kto Kogo? : A Cross-Country Study of the Origins and Targets of Terrorism

By A. Krueger, David D. Laitin. 2008

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Aid and the Delegated Fight against Terrorism (2006, neutral): “one used by Krueger and Maleckova (2003) and Krueger and Laitin (2003) .”
The life satisfaction approach to valuing public goods: The case of terrorism (2009, background): “Finally, according to cross-country studies, poverty does not increase terrorism risk, as assessed by an international risk agency (Abadie 2006) or reflected in the number of international terrorist attacks (Piazza 2006), nor do perpetrators predominantly stem from poor countries (Krueger and Laitin”
The Origins of Terrorism - Cross-Country Estimates on Socio-Economic Determinants of Terrorism (2011, background): “Studies taking the target perspective are, e.g., Blomberg, Hess and Weerapana (2004), Tavares (2004) and Krueger and Laitin (2008).”
Economic Conditions and the Quality of Suicide Terrorism (2010, background): “…find that economic fluctuations in countries from which terrorism originates do not seem to affect the respective countries’ level of terrorism (Abadie 2006; Drakos and Gofas 2006a; Krueger and Laitin 2008; Piazza 2006).11 This does not imply that economic conditions do not affect terrorism at all.”
Do Democracies Make Inferior Counterinsurgents? Reassessing Democracy's Impact on War Outcomes and Duration (2010, background): “To date, a near consensus exists among scholars, policymakers, and journalists around the belief that democracies are uniquely deficient when fighting counterinsurgency ~COIN! campaigns+ It is commonly argued, for example, that democratic publics are cost-intolerant and highly casualty-sensitive, es”
Poverty, minority economic discrimination, and domestic terrorism (2011, background): “…of macroeconomic indicators on terrorism fail to show conclusively that impoverished or underdeveloped countries experience higher rates of terrorism, or produce more terrorists, than do middle or high-income countries (Abadie, 2006; Dreher & Gassebner, 2008; Krueger & Laitin, 2008; Piazza, 2006).”
The roles of foreign aid and education in the war on terror (2008, methodology): “The survey data presented in Krueger and Maleckova (2003), as well as in Krueger and Laitin (2003) , show in fact that terrorists from different movements, including the Hezbollah, are predominantly recruited from a relatively wealthy and educated family background.”
Foreign direct investment, aid, and terrorism (2014, background): “The economic dimension of terrorism concerns losses in foreign direct investment (FDI), damaged infrastructure, output losses, security costs, reduced economic growth, reduced tourism, trade losses, and higher insurance premiums (Keefer and Loayza, 2008).”
Psychological factors in terrorism and counterterrorism: Individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis. (2009, background): “Thus, organizations can turn terrorism on and off in accordance with their tactical assessment of what works under given political, social, and economic conditions (see Berman & Laitin, 2008; Hafez, 2006; Krueger & Laitin, 2008).”