Fighting terrorism at source using foreign aid to delegate global security

This book offers a unique and insightful econometric evaluation of the policies used to fight transnational terrorism between 1990 and 2014. It uses the tools of modern economics, game theory and structural econometrics to analyze the roles of foreign aid, educational capital, and military intervent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Azam, Jean-Paul, Thelen, Véronique (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton, MA Edward Elgar Publishing Limited 2018, 2018
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Collection: Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Contents: 1. Introduction and overview
  • Part 1: Getting the questions right
  • 2: Targets and perpetrators of transnational terrorist attacks
  • 3: Why suicide terrorists get educated
  • 4: Aid and military intervention in a model of delegated protection
  • Part 2: Empirical answers
  • 5: Testing the impacts of foreign aid and military interventions
  • 6: Estimating the speed of terrorist responses.
  • 7: The problem of imported attacks
  • 8.
  • General conclusion
  • Index