US Military Response to the Risk of Terrorist Attacks
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Jean-Paul Azam
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Véronique Thelen
Abstract
This paper reports that the econometric findings of Azam & Thelen (2010) remain valid when the sample is extended by 10 years to cover 1990–2014 in Azam & Thelen (2018). They blame the presence of US troops in oil-exporting countries and their neighbors for increasing transnational terrorist attacks by nationals from these countries. They also confirm that foreign aid and educational capital are playing the opposite role by reducing the number of such attacks. The “Obama years” saw a lowered presence of US troops overseas and their smaller marginal impact on transnational terrorism.
References
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Article Note
Paper presented at the 18th Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference, University of Verona, Italy, June 18, 2018, the 2nd IAST-Sciences Po Paris Conference on Political Economy and Political Science, Institute for Advance Study in Toulouse, July 5, 2018, and the “Ethnic and Spatial Confrontations: Incomes, Networks and Terrorism” Workshop, GREQAM, AMSE, Marseille: November 15, 2017. The authors are grateful for the comments received on these occasions.
©2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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- Editorial
- Introduction to the Proceedings of the 18th Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference
- Survey or Review
- Systematic Study of Gender, Conflict, and Peace
- Letters and Proceedings
- Political Initiatives and Peacekeeping: Assessing Multiple UN Conflict Resolution Tools
- US Military Response to the Risk of Terrorist Attacks
- Do Foreign Aid Projects Attract Transnational Terrorism?
- Military Spending and Inequality in Autocracies
- Beyond a Bag of Words: Using PULSAR to Extract Judgments on Specific Human Rights at Scale
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- Conflict in Cyber-Space: The Network of Cyber Incidents, 2000–2014
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