The evolving field of the economics of terrorism has been and continues to be the subject of much research. Professor Enders, in this authoritative research review, charts the development of this topic over the past century. The areas discussed include incentive regulation, competition in generation, market power, transmission and system operation as well as retail competition and future developments.
The evolving field of the economics of terrorism has been and continues to be the subject of much research. Professor Enders, in this authoritative research review, charts the development of this topic over the past century. The areas discussed include incentive regulation, competition in generation, market power, transmission and system operation as well as retail competition and future developments.
Contents:
Introduction Walter Enders
PART I TERRORIST MOTIVES, TYPES AND ORGANIZATIONS
1. David C. Rapoport (2004), ‘The Four Waves of Modern Terrorism’,
in Audrey Kurth Cronin and James M. Ludes (eds), Attacking
Terrorism: Elements of a Grand Strategy, Chapter 2, Washington,
D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 46-72
2. Martha Crenshaw (1981), ‘The Causes of Terrorism’, Comparative
Politics, 13 (4), July, 379–99
3. Max Abrahms (2008), ‘What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist
Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy’, International Security, 32
(4), Spring, 78–105
4. Robert A. Pape (2003), ‘The Strategic Logic of Suicide
Terrorism’, American Political Science Review, 97 (3), August,
343–61
5. Walter Enders and Xuejuan Su (2007), ‘Rational Terrorists and
Optimal Network Structure’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 51 (1),
February, 33–57
6. Ethan Bueno de Mesquita (2005), ‘The Quality of Terror’,
American Journal of Political Science, 49 (3), July, 515–30
PART II DEMOCRACY, THE MEDIA AND TERRORISM
7. Burcu Savun and Brian J. Phillips (2009), ‘Democracy, Foreign
Policy, and Terrorism’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 53 (6),
December, 878–904
8. W. Kip Viscusi and Richard J. Zeckhauser (2003) ‘Sacrificing
Civil Liberties to Reduce Terrorism Risks’, Journal of Risk and
Uncertainty, 26 (2–3), March, 99–120
9. James A. Piazza (2008), ‘Incubators of Terror: Do Failed and
Failing States Promote Transnational Terrorism?’, International
Studies Quarterly, 52 (3), September, 469–88
10. William Eubank and Leonard Weinberg (2001), ‘Terrorism and
Democracy: Perpetrators and Victims’, Terrorism and Political
Violence, 13 (1), Spring, 155–64
11. Quan Li (2005), ‘Does Democracy Promote or Reduce Transnational
Terrorist Incidents?’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 49 (2),
April, 278–97
12. Paul S. Nelson and John L. Scott (1992), ‘Terrorism and the
Media: An Empirical Analysis’, Defence Economics, 3 (4), 329–39
13. Darren W. Davis and Brian D. Silver (2004), ‘Civil Liberties
vs. Security: Public Opinion in the Context of the Terrorist
Attacks on America’, American Journal of Political Science, 48 (1),
January, 28–46
PART III EDUCATION AND POVERTY
14. Alan B. Krueger and Jitka Malečková (2003), ‘Education, Poverty
and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?’, Journal of Economic
Perspectives, 17 (4), Fall, 119–44
15. Alberto Abadie (2006), ‘Poverty, Political Freedom, and the
Roots of Terrorism’, American Economic Review, 96 (2), May,
50–56
16. Walter Enders, Gary A. Hoover and Todd Sandler (2012), ‘The
Changing Nonlinear Relationship between Income and Terrorism’,
Journal of Conflict Resolution, online first, 1–31
17. James A. Piazza (2011), ‘Poverty, Minority Economic
Discrimination, and Domestic Terrorism’, Journal of Peace Research,
48 (3), May, 339–53
18. Efraim Benmelech, Claude Berrebi and Esteban F. Klor (2012),
‘Economic Conditions and the Quality of Suicide Terrorism’, Journal
of Politics, 74 (1), January, 113–28
19. Claude Berrebi (2007), ‘Evidence about the Link Between
Education, Poverty and Terrorism Among Palestinians’, Peace
Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 13 (1), i, 1–38
PART IV COSTS OF TERRORISM
20. S. Brock Blomberg, Gregory D. Hess and Athanasios Orphanides
(2004), ‘The Macroeconomic Consequences of Terrorism’, Journal of
Monetary Economics, 51 (5), July, 1007–32
21. Todd Sandler and Walter Enders (2008), ‘Economic Consequences
of Terrorism in Developed and Developing Countries: An Overview’,
in Philip Keefer and Norman Loayza (eds), Terrorism, Economic
Development, and Political Openness, Chapter 1, Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 17–47
22. Zvi Eckstein and Daniel Tsiddon (2004), ‘Macroeconomic
Consequences of Terror: Theory and the Case of Israel’, Journal of
Monetary Economics, 51 (5), July, 971–1002
23. Alberto Abadie and Javier Gardeazabal (2003), ‘The Economic
Cost of Conflict: A Case Study of the Basque Country’, American
Economic Review, 93 (1), March, 113–32
24. Bruno S. Frey, Simon Luechinger and Alois Stutzer (2009), ‘The
Life Satisfaction Approach to Valuing Public Goods: The Case of
Terrorism’, Public Choice, 138 (3–4), March, 317–45
PART V COUNTER-TERRORISM AND SUBSTITUTION EFFECTS
25. William M. Landes (1978), ‘An Economic Study of U.S. Aircraft
Hijacking, 1961-1976’, Journal of Law and Economics, 21 (1), April,
1–31, errata
26. Walter Enders and Todd Sandler (1993), ‘The Effectiveness of
Antiterrorism Policies: A Vector-Autoregression-Intervention
Analysis’, American Political Science Review, 87 (4), December,
829–44
27. Victor Asal and R. Karl Rethemeyer (2008), ‘The Nature of the
Beast: Organizational Structures and the Lethality of Terrorist
Attacks’, Journal of Politics, 70 (2), April, 437–49
28. Howard Kunreuther and Geoffrey Heal (2003), ‘Interdependent
Security’, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 26 (2–3), March, 231–49
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PART VI ASSISTANCE
29. Bruno S. Frey and Simon Luechinger (2003), ‘How to Fight
Terrorism: Alternatives to Deterrence’, Defence and Peace
Economics, 14 (4), August, 237–49
30. Jean-Paul Azam and Véronique Thelen (2010), ‘Foreign Aid Versus
Military Intervention in the War on Terror’, Journal of Conflict
Resolution, 54 (2), April, 237–61
31. Navin A. Bapat (2011), ‘Transnational Terrorism, US Military
Aid, and the Incentive to Misrepresent’, Journal of Peace Research,
48 (3), May, 303–18
32. Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Todd Sandler and Javed Younas (2014),
‘Foreign Direct Investment, Aid, and Terrorism’, Oxford Economic
Papers, 66 (1), January, 25–50
PART VII ENDING TERRORISM
33. Audrey Kurth Cronin (2006), ‘How al-Qaida Ends: The Decline and
Demise of Terrorist Groups’, International Security, 31 (1),
Summer, 7–48
34. Audrey Kurth Cronin (2014), ‘The “War on Terrorism”: What Does
it Mean to Win?’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 37 (2), 174–97
35. Khusrav Gaibulloev and Todd Sandler (2014), ‘An Empirical
Analysis of Alternative Ways that Terrorist Groups End’, Public
Choice, 160 (1–2), July, 25–44
Index
Edited by Walter Enders, Bidgood Chair of Economics and Finance, University of Alabama, US
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