Socioeconomic nature of terrorism

Valeriy Chichkanov (), Alexey Naydenov and Ilya Krivenko ()
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Alexey Naydenov: Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. Centre for Economic Security
Ilya Krivenko: Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Science

Economy of region, 2013, vol. 1, issue 4, 65 - 75

Abstract: In the article, the theoretical and methodological foundations of investigation of the socioeconomic nature of terrorism are considered. Hypothesis of research is the existence of methodological criteria of territory classification on the basis of external and internal terrorism. On the basis of the analysis of theoretical works of national and foreign authors, normative documents of state and international level the genesis of approaches to the understanding of the essence of modern terrorism, its contents, the subject-object relations and manifestation forms is received. As the result, according to the authors’ definition “terrorism†is understood as an ideology connected with deliberate violence or threats against the civilian population or property to influence on the government or the interstate organizations. In the work, the factors of development and spreading of terrorism in the Russian Federation’s regions are allocated and quantitatively proved. Weight parameters of the specified factors are determined. The methodological differentiation of the specified factors on factors of terrorism external (attacks from the outside) and an internal form (distribution and realization of radical ideas within the region in the territory) is the distinctive feature of the conducted research. During the research, the cluster analysis of a region is carried out to distribute of Russia’s regions according to the typological characteristic of the region of internal and external terrorism. The obtained data are verified in accordance with empirical data, the hypothesis of the existence of methodological criteria of the region classification on the basis of external and internal terrorism is proved.

Keywords: terrorism; socioeconomic environment; act of terrorism; religious terrorism; conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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