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Rooted in Urban Poverty? Failed Modernization and Terrorism
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Daniel Meierrieks
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13. Dezember 2012
Abstract
This contribution finds that urban (but not rural) poverty fuels domestic and anti-U.S. terrorism in 43 developing countries. It argues that urban poverty aids non-state groups which use terrorism as a means to capture rents and consolidate popular support.
Published Online: 2012-12-13
© 2012 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.
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- Peace Economics Peace Science and Public Policy
- Political Economy of Institutions and Conflict
- The Consequences of Divide-and-Rule Politics in Africa South of the Sahara
- Citizenry Accountability in Autocracies
- Military Spending and Democratisation
- A Test of Huntington’s Thesis
- Partitioning Ethnic Groups and their Members: Explaining Variations in Satisfaction with Democracy in Africa
- Conflict and Violence
- The Organization of Political Violence by Insurgencies
- The lone wolf terrorist: sprees of violence
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- Human Rights “Naming & Shaming” and Civil War Violence
- Conflict Dynamics
- A Note on a Comparison of Simultaneous and Sequential Colonel Blotto Games
- The effect of within-group inequality in a conflict against a unitary threat
- Cooperation beats Deterrence in Cyberwar
- Civil Conflict in Africa
- The Socioeconomic Distribution of Adult Mortality during Conflicts in Africa
- Wartime Violence and Post-Conflict Political Mobilization in Mozambique
- Gold and Civil Conflict Intensity: evidence from a spatially disaggregated analysis
