Building on previous literature, we assess when foreign aid is effective in fighting terrorism using quantile regressions on a panel of 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. Bilteral, multilateral and total aid indicators are used whereas terrorism includes: domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorism dynamics. We consistently establish that foreign aid (bilateral, multilat...

Ever since the 9-11 incident, the multidisciplinary field of terrorism has experienced tremendous growth. As the domain has benefited greatly from recent advances in information technologies, more complex and challenging new issues have emerged from numerous counter-terrorism-related research communities as well as governments of all levels. In this paper, we describe an advanced knowledge disc...

Abstract Background: High profile terrorist attacks in major capital cities have seemingly become a regular occurrence and the resultant mass-casualty events continue to challenge health care systems. Counter-Terrorism Medicine (CTM) addresses unique terrorism-related issues relating mitigation, preparedness, response measures asymmetric, multi-modality attacks. This study is an epidemiological...

s homo sapiens (thinking beings) and more precisely as homo fabers (creative beings) we have always been somewhat awed and puzzled by the notion of change and continuity. Is our contemporary living any different from the known past? Is terrorism of today any different from the terrorism of yesteryears? We could be more precise in our questions. Is twenty-first century-terrorism any different fr...

This article examines the extent to which terrorist use of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons poses a tangible threat to international security. In the literature on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) some analysts have tended to exaggerate the scope of the threat and assumed that large-scale terrorist acts involving WMD are only ‘a matter of time’. In short, there is a tend...

The opinions of several Nobel Peace Prize winners on the root causes of terrorism were described Laureates quoted highlight the role of low education and poverty in terrorism: " What is it that seduces some young people to terrorism? It simplifies things. The fanatic has no questions, only answers. Education is the way to eliminate terrorism. " (Elie Wiesel) " If the mind is more open, that wil...

with the intensification of violent terrorist operations in the world, in terms of the structural causes of terrorism has been much academic research. the active area of terrorism is not only physical variables and variable should ideological and psychological, environmental and cultural-identity also tracked. the reasons are complex and varied phenomenon of terrorism and can not cause its root...

the criminal justice and observance of human rights principles have important roles in efficiency of bodies involved in combating against terrorism. as some states like u.k. have violated several international provisions such as international civil and political covenant and the european convention of human rights, this article tries to verify anti-terrorism crime and security act (atcsa) and i...

This article investigates whether gender imbalance may be conducive to domestic terrorism in developing countries. A female-dominated society may not provide sufficient administration, law, or order to limit domestic terrorism, especially since societies in developing countries primarily turn to males for administration, policing, and paramilitary forces. Other economic considerations support f...

This article reinvestigates the relationship between real per capita gross domestic product (GDP) and terrorism. We devise a terrorism Lorenz curve to show that domestic and transnational terrorist attacks are each more concentrated in middle-income countries, thereby suggesting a nonlinear income-terrorism relationship. Moreover, this point of concentration shifted to lower income countries af...