Fighting Terrorism at Source Using Foreign Aid to Delegate Global Security

Véronique Thelen () and Jean-Paul Azam ()
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Véronique Thelen: CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This book offers a unique and insightful econometric evaluation of the policies used to fight transnational terrorism between 1990 and 2014 using a sample of 124 countries. It proves that foreign aid plays a crucial role by inducing recipient governments to protect the donors' political and economic interests within their sphere of influence. In contrast, US troops on the ground are counter-productive as they increase the supply of terrorist attacks from the host countries, even though this effect has been significantly reduced by the Obama administration.

Keywords: terrorism; foreign aid; military intervention; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in elgar elgar, pp.200, 2018, 978 1 78643 216 2

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