United Nations (UN) General Assembly votes have become the standard data source for
measures of states preferences over foreign policy. Most papers use dyadic indicators of …

We provide a review of theoretical and empirical contributions on the economic analysis of
terrorism and counterterrorism. We argue that simple rational‐choice models of terrorist …

During the last few decades, human dynamics, institutional change, political relations and
the global environment have become successively more intertwined. While increased global …

Is political compliance a precondition for healthy trade relations with China? The Chinese
government frequently threatens that meetings between its trading partners' officials and the …

We provide an overview of empirical evidence on the determinants of terrorism, in particular
focusing on the origins and targets of transnational terrorism. We also assemble several …

Can international institutions help create more cooperative and peaceful relations between
states? If so, how? And what motivates states to create meaningful institutions in the first …

Prior research has concluded that socio-economic development does not significantly affect
terrorism. We take an alternative view. First, we note that a country's socio-economic …

We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using
extreme bound analysis, the three most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on …

Using data on 143 sovereigns provided by nine agencies based in six countries, we
estimate the determinants of sovereign ratings to test whether agencies assign higher …

The purpose of this study is to analyze the determinants of terrorism in the context of
Pakistan. The determinants of terrorism include various socio-economic variables like GDP …