Negative Returns: U.S. Military Policy and Anti-American Terrorism
Eugen Dimant,
Tim Krieger and
Daniel Meierrieks
No 17106, Economics Working Papers from Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Abstract:
We investigate the effect of U.S. military aid and U.S. troop deployments on anti-American terrorism, using a sample of 106 countries between 1986 and 2011. We find that greater military commitment leads to more anti-American terrorism. We study the underlying mechanisms using a mediation analysis and show that both U.S. military aid and troop deployments in foreign countries do not improve local state capacity. Rather, we find that more military aid (but not troop deployments) is linked to poorer political-institutional outcomes in aid-receiving countries, explaining the positive association between U.S. military aid and anti-American terrorism. Our findings suggest that U.S. military policy does not make the United States safer from transnational terrorism.
Keywords: U.S. military aid; U.S. troop deployments; anti-American terrorism; transnational terrorism; mediation analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D74 F35 F50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2017-06
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