Transnational Terrorism and the Internet
Does the internet enable the recruitment of transnational terrorists Using geo-referenced population census data and personnel records from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant-a highly tech-savvy terrorist organization-this paper shows that internet access has facilitated the organization'...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C
The World Bank
2021
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| Collection: | World Bank E-Library Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Does the internet enable the recruitment of transnational terrorists Using geo-referenced population census data and personnel records from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant-a highly tech-savvy terrorist organization-this paper shows that internet access has facilitated the organization's recruitment of foreign fighters from Tunisia. The positive association between internet access and Daesh recruitment is robust to controlling for a large set of observable and unobservable confounders as well as instrumenting internet access rates with the incidence of lightning strikes |
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| Physical Description: | 31 pages |