the Global Terrorism Database 1. The authors also find that nonterritorial violence is more likely in democratic, old … what extent territorial conflicts correspond to civil wars and nonterritorial ones to terrorism. …

The research on the influence of democracy on terrorism renders support for two causal mechanisms. One is that … democracy reduces terrorism because it creates an environment in which dissenters can pursue their interests through peaceful … means. The other argument states that democracy encourages terrorism due to the intrinsic liberties and freedoms that …

property is a robust feature of terrorism, persisting when we control for economic development of the target country, the type … global terrorism. Finally, we describe a simple toy model for the generation of these statistics and briefly discuss its …

While it is commonly assumed that the United States uses foreign aid as an instrument to combat global terrorism, it is … relationship between transnational terrorism and foreign aid flows is strongly conditional on whether terrorist activity based in a … determinant of both whether that state receives any aid and also how much aid it receives. In contrast, the presence of terrorism …