The Political Economy of Terrorism by Walter Enders

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By Walter Enders

Providing a commonly available method of the research of terrorism, this quantity combines fiscal equipment with political research and realities. It applies financial methodology--theoretical and empirical--with political research to the examine of family and transnational terrorism, to supply a qualitative and quantitative research of terrorism in a balanced updated presentation for college kids, policymakers, researchers, and the final reader. integrated are ancient features of the phenomenon, a dialogue of watershed occasions, the increase of modern day terrorism, exam of present traits, the predicament of liberal democracies, evaluate of counterterrorism, and research of hostage incidents.

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The Italian government of Bettino Craxi collapsed on 17 October 1985, just five days after it released 16:34 P1: JZZ 0521851009c02 CUNY305B/Enders 28 0 521 85100 9 September 22, 2005 The Political Economy of Terrorism Abu Abbas, the mastermind of the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship (Mickolus, Sandler, and Murdock, 1989, vol. 2, p. 285). Following the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings, the Spanish government lost the general election after it tried to pin responsibility for the bombings on Euzkadi ta Askatasuna when the evidence pointed to Islamic fundamentalists.

For example, empirical methods can identify cycles, trend (if any), and abrupt changes in terrorists’ behavior. Such methods can also be used to generate forecasts, evaluate policies, and to gauge the economic consequences of events (for example, the effects of a series of hijackings on airline revenues). Theoretical analysis can address such questions as: should governments share information if they do not coordinate defensive operations? When theoretical methods are applied, conclusions may initially be surprising owing to perverse incentives among adversaries or targets.

In the Eubank and Weinberg (1994) analysis, the hosting of one or more terrorist groups characterized the country as confronting terrorism. This measure is particularly poor at measuring spillover terrorism, where 16:34 P1: JZZ 0521851009c02 CUNY305B/Enders 30 0 521 85100 9 September 22, 2005 The Political Economy of Terrorism groups stage their terrorist activities in one country while being based elsewhere. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Middle East terrorism spilled over to Europe; for example, forty-three incidents in Europe were of Middle Eastern origin in 1987 (US Department of State, 1988).

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