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Terrorism and Economics

Title Investigators Project Period
A Climate of Terror: Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism Marcus A. Boyd, Samuel D. Henkin -
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban Barnett S. Koven -
Climate Change and Terrorism: A Call to Action
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS) Barnett S. Koven -
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex Gary LaFree, Erin Miller -
Dynamics of Terror and Counterterrorism Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Dynamics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Campaigns Gary Ackerman, Joseph Young, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Victor Asal -
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance Marcus A. Boyd -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration Erin Miller -
Measuring Political Radicalization: Diaspora Support for Terrorism among Ottawa's Lebanese Muslim Community Bidisha Biswas, Christian Leuprecht, Clark McCauley -
Organizational Determinants of Violence and Performance Gina Scott Ligon -
Radicalizing the Poor: Understanding the Influence of Service Provision on Popular Support for and Participation in Violent Political Groups Shawn Flanigan -
Social, Behavioral, Cultural, and Economic (SBCE) Impacts on Terrorist Activity Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan, Erin Miller -
U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks & Trade Diversion Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak, Roberta Belli -
Project Title Publication Date Publication Type
100 Days Later: COVID-19: Implications for Managing Terrorism and Asymmetric Threats 2020-05-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
A Climate of Terror? Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as a Means for Terrorist Exploitation 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as a Potential Ideological Driver of Terrorism 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as an Indirect Contributor to Terrorism 2022-05-20T12:00:00 Research Brief
Analyzing Catastrophic Terrorist Events with Applications to the Food Industry 2007-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Analyzing Political and Social Regional Stability with Statistics: Challenges and Opportunities 2010-01-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Applying Social Network Analysis to Terrorist Financing 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Cigarette smuggling and terrorism financing 2013-11-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Climate Change and Security 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Change and Terrorism: A Call to Action 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Change and Terrorism: Key Insights 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Security and Russian Influence in North and West Africa 2025-03-28T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Security in Southeast Asia 2023-04-17T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa 2024-12-27T12:00:00 START Reports
Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa. Rapid Review 1: Farmer-Herder Conflict 2024-12-29T12:00:00 START Reports
Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa. Rapid Review 2: Russian Influence 2024-12-30T12:00:00 START Reports
Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in Southeast Asia 2023-10-09T12:00:00 START Reports
Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in Southeast Asia: Conceptualization of Climate Security in Southeast Asia 2024-04-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Comparing the Determinants of Worldwide Homicide and Terrorism 2023-08-21T12:00:00 Journal Article
Connecting Adversarial and Environmental Geopolitics in Southeast Asia 2023-04-24T12:00:00 Research Brief
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure 2020-04-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Crime Terror Alliances and the State. Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Book
Do Democracy and Free Markets Protect Us from Terrorism? 2008-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Does Globalization Reduce Personal Violence? The Impact of International Trade on Cross-National Homicide Rates 2022-11-08T12:00:00 Journal Article
Don't Follow the Money: The Problem with the War on Terrorist Financing 2017-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Economic Development, Poorly Managed Political Conflict and Terrorism in India 2009-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Financial Activities Linked to Persons from Sweden and Denmark who Joined Terrorist Groups in Syria and Iraq During the Period 2013-2016 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Report
Financial Crime and Material Support Schemes Linked to al-Qa'ida and Affiliated Movements (AQAM) in the United States: 1990 to June 2014 2014-11-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Financial Crime and Material Support Schemes Linked to al-Qa'ida and Affiliated Movements (AQAM) in the United States: 1990 to June 2014 2014-12-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Financial Terror: Financial Crime Schemes Involving Extremists Linked to the American Far Right and al-Qaida and Affiliated Movements 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance 2017-12-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
In the Shadow of 9/11: How the Study of Political Extremism Has Reshaped Criminology 2021-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Nonprofit Service Provision by Insurgent Organizations: The Cases of Hizballah and the Tamil Tigers 2008-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Oil and Terrorism: An Investigation of Mediators 2016-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Political Demography of Conflict in Mali 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Report
Poverty, Minority Economic Discrimination, and Domestic Terrorism 2011-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Re-Thinking Climate Security 2023-04-11T12:00:00 Research Brief
Rooted in Poverty?: Terrorism, Poor Economic Development, and Social Cleavages 2006-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Targeting Strategies in Single-Issue Bomb Attacks 2016-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Cost of Living and Terror: Does Consumer Price Volatility Fuel Terrorism? 2013-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Determinants of Domestic Right-Wing Terrorism in the USA: Economic Grievance, Societal Change and Political Resentment 2015-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Impact of Terrorism on Italian Employment and Business Activity 2007-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Nexus between Terrorism and U.S. Product Counterfeiting 2014-07-01T12:00:00 Report
The Paradox of the Heavy-handed Insurgent: Public Support for the Taliban Among Afghan Pashtuns. 2022-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Title Job Title Institution
Koven Barnett S. Koven Data Science Manager, Deloitte Government & Public Services
Bo Jiang, START Bo Jiang Graduate Research Assistant, START University of Maryland
Brandon Behlendorf Brandon Behlendorf Assistant Professor, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, SUNY Albany University at Albany, State University of New York
Panyan Karina Panyan Research Assistant, Global Terrorism Database (GTD), START University of Maryland
Laura Dugan Laura Dugan Ralph Mershon Professor of Human Security and Professor of Sociology The Ohio State University
Boyd_Marcus Marcus A. Boyd Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Director, START
Director of Graduate Studies, START 		University of Maryland
Jacome_Michlle Michelle Jacome Operations Officer on International Finance Cooperation at the World Bank