Transnational terrorism and restrictive immigration policies

Combating Transnational Terrorism in Kenya

Is Transnational Terrorism Becoming More Threatening?

INTERPOL's Surveillance Network in Curbing Transnational Terrorism

This paper investigates the role that International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) surveillance—the Mobile INTERPOL Network Database (MIND) and the Fixed INTERPOL Network Database (FIND)—played in the War on Terror since its inception in 2005. MIND/FIND surveillance allows countries to screen people and documents systematically at border crossings against INTERPOL databases on terroris...

Transnational Terrorism: An Economic Analysis by

Both theoretical and empirical techniques are used to put modern-day terrorism into perspective. This paper surveys past contributions, presents updated empirical findings, and suggests new directions for research. Because of strategic interactions among terrorists and targeted government, game theory and economic methods play an important role in identifying novel policy recommendations and be...

Skills, Immigration and Selective Policies

This paper analyzes the decision process that leads destination countries to introduce selective immigration policies based on skills requirements. We show that in absence of policy implementation costs, preferences in destination countries are polarized between complete openness or complete closure. However, this result changes if we take into account policy implementation costs. In presence o...