Fighting Terrorism at Source: Using Foreign Aid to Delegate Global Security

ISBN-13: 9781786432162 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 200 str.

Jean-Paul Azam;Veronique Thelen

Opis

This book offers a unique and insightful econometric evaluation of the policies used to fight transnational terrorism between 1990 and 2014 using a sample of 124 countries. It proves that foreign aid plays a crucial role by inducing recipient governments to protect the donors' political and economic interests within their sphere of influence. In contrast, US troops on the ground are counter-productive as they increase the supply of terrorist attacks from the host countries, even though this effect has been significantly reduced by the Obama administration.