Root, Breeding, and Propagative Causes of Terrorism

Satya P. Das
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Satya P. Das: University of South Florida

Chapter Chapter 15 in Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Measures, 2022, pp 549-581 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter documents the existing empirical evidence on a priori “fundamental causes” of terrorism, which include the so-called root causes like foreign occupation, poverty, deprivation of civil and political rights, economic inequality, discrimination, etc. as well as breeding-ground factors like ongoing conflicts that hamper the law and order environment and help terror organizations to breed and grow. It also reviews globalization as a propagative factor of transnational terrorism. Among many other results, it is shown that per-capita income and political/civil rights bear an inverted U-shaped relationship with the incidence of terrorism. Survey data implies that Islamophobia in the western countries like the USA may contribute toward radicalization of Muslim youth. Various statistical and econometric tools are briefly introduced.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96577-8_15

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