Exploiting the Chaos: Terrorist Target Choice Following Natural Disasters.
This article explores the differences between transnational and domestic terrorism, further differentiating by private versus government targets, to estimate the effect of exogenous catastrophic shocks on a country's level of domestic and transnational terrorism. The empirical analysis uses detailed...
| Publicado en: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 79; no. 4; pp. 793 - 812 |
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