The first comprehensive handbook on the economic analysis of terrorism. A fundamental reference for understanding terrorism in academia, government, and law enforcement. It combines chapters on general themes such as the economic approach to studying terrorism with focused chapters on key issues such as counterterrorism and terror organizations.
Since the turn of the century, few issues have shaped political debate and policy-making more than terrorism. As a result, there has been a huge increase in the amount of academic research devoted to investigating the causes and consequences of terrorism. The Cambridge Handbook on the Economics of Terrorism is the first to present a state-of-the art survey of the economics of terrorism. It adopts a rational-choice perspective according to which terrorists are viewed as rational economic actors and presents a framework for analyzing the causes and consequences of terrorism. It explores the causes and consequences of terrorism and shines a light on practical counterterrorism policies and their trade-offs. With contributions from many leading figures in this fast-growing and important field, this book offers an accessible yet comprehensive collection of the economic analysis of terror.
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The book incorporates what is known in the field and the fundamental theoretical framework for current and future research.
Part I. Concepts and Organizing Principles:
1. Introduction: The
Economic Approach to the Analysis of Terrorism Atin Basuchoudhary and Günther
G. Schulze;
2. Terrorism: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What We Need
to Know Todd Sandler and Khusrav Gaibulloev;
3. Terrorism: A Brief History
William F. Shughart II;
4. Measuring Terrorism with Event Databases Gary
LaFree and Michael Becker;
5. Counting Every Body Determining the Global
Burden of Terrorism and Armed Conflict Anke Hoeffler;
6. Organizing Terrorism
Jacob N. Shapiro, Margaret J. Foster and David A. Siegel;
7. Theories of
Terrorism Atin Basuchoudhary and Gary M. Shiffman; Part II. Determinants of
Terrorism:
8. Individual Determinants of Terrorism Claude Berrebi and Owen
Engel;
9. The Economics of Suicide Terrorism and the Curious Case of Sri
Lanka Mia M. Bloom;
10. Economics, Psychology and Terrorism Max Taylor;
11.
Lock, Stock & Barrel Reloaded Martin Gassebner and Tobias Korn;
12. Machine
Learning Approaches to Understanding Global Trends and Causal Determinants of
Terrorism James T. Bang and Aniruddha Mitra;
13. Migration and Terrorism Tim
Krieger;
14. The Economics of Terrorism and Social Media Kweku A.
Opoku-Agyemang;
15. Religion and Terrorism: The Religious Utility Hypothesis
Jean-Paul Carvalho;
16. Cost Benefit Decision-Making & Lone-Actor Terrorism
Paul Gill and Zoe Marchment; Part III. Consequences of Terrorism:
17.
Macroeconomic Consequences of and Economic Resilience to Terrorism Daniel
Meierrieks;
18. Trade Effects of Terrorism Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Javed
Younas;
19. Terror Attacks and Threats, Wars and Stock Market Volatility in
the G7 Countries: A Century of Evidence from a Time-Varying Nonparametric
Panel Data Model of Geopolitical Risks Elie Bouri, Oguzhan Cepni, Rangan
Gupta and Naji Jalkh;
20. Tourism Valentin Klotzbücher and Günther G.
Schulze;
21. Insurance Stephen Johnson;
22. Terror and its Fiscal
Consequences Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta, João Tovar Jalles and Saida
Khamidova;
23. Terrorism, Voting Behavior, and Political Attitudes José G.
Montalvo;
24. The Complex Relationship between Democracy and Terrorism Dennis
M. Foster, Benjamin A. Kleinerman and Howard Sanborn;
25. Terrorism and
Social Cohesion Günther G. Schulze; Part IV. Counterterrorism:
26. The
Counterterrorism Policies of Deterrence and Preemption Jingxian Chen and
Kevin Siqueira;
27. Game Theoretic Models Daniel Arce;
28. Offensive
Counterterrorism: Lessons from Israel Efraim Benmelech;
29. War, Terrorism
and Science and Technology R. E. Burnett and Carly Philpot;
30. The Financing
of Terrorism Friedrich Schneider;
31. Foreign Aid as a Counterterrorism Tool
Amira Jadoon;
32. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Measures to Counter
Domestic Terrorism John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart;
33. Ethics of
Counterterrorism Duncan Richter; Part V. Concluding Issues:
34. When is
Terrorism Successful? Peter Krause;
35. Twenty-first-Century Terrorism Eli
Berman.
Atin Basuchoudhary is the Roberts Professor of Free Enterprise at the Virginia Military Institute. He has published numerous books on machine learning and the political economy of conflict. He has also won numerous teaching and research awards at VMI, including a finalist citation for teaching excellence from the State Council of Higher Education of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Günther G. Schulze is a Professor of Economics at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and director of the Department of International Economic Policy. His research areas comprise political economy, international and development economics, and the economics of conflict and terrorism. He has published and co-edited six books and authored around 50 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals and numerous book chapters.
