War on terror: Do military measures matter? Empirical analysis of post 9/11 period in Pakistan

Muhammad Nasir () and Muhammad Shahbaz

Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2015, vol. 49, issue 5, 1969-1984

Abstract: This paper is the first attempt to investigate the causal relationship between military spending, terrorist attacks and intensity of terrorism in case of Pakistan, by applying the ARDL approach to cointegration and innovation accounting approach for causality analysis. The results indicate that war on terror is the major determinant of military spending followed by terrorism intensity and the number of terrorist attacks respectively. The study further finds that terrorism intensity and terrorist attacks Granger-cause military spending but the reverse is not present. The failure of military measures to curtail terrorism and its intensity induces one to suggest greater involvement of civil intelligence agencies by raising their budgets instead of pure military budget. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

Keywords: Causality analysis; Military spending; Civil intelligence; Terrorism; C12; C32; O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s11135-014-0084-x

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