Terrorism and Economics

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Project Title	Investigators	Project Period
U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks & Trade Diversion	Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak, Roberta Belli	July, 2012 to December, 2013
Social, Behavioral, Cultural, and Economic (SBCE) Impacts on Terrorist Activity	Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan, Erin Miller	July, 2012 to December, 2017
Radicalizing the Poor: Understanding the Influence of Service Provision on Popular Support for and Participation in Violent Political Groups	Shawn Flanigan	June, 2008 to May, 2011
Organizational Determinants of Violence and Performance	Gina Scott Ligon	July, 2012 to December, 2016
Measuring Political Radicalization: Diaspora Support for Terrorism among Ottawa's Lebanese Muslim Community	Bidisha Biswas, Christian Leuprecht, Clark McCauley	August, 2008 to May, 2010
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration	Erin Miller	January, 2019 to January, 2020
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)	Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan	June, 2001 to January, 2020
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance	Marcus A. Boyd	July, 2015 to July, 2016
Dynamics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Campaigns	Gary Ackerman, Joseph Young, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Victor Asal	July, 2014 to December, 2017
Dynamics of Terror and Counterterrorism	Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan	January, 2005 to June, 2009
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex	Gary LaFree, Erin Miller	May, 2012 to May, 2018
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS)	Barnett S. Koven	January, 2019 to January, 2020
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban	Barnett S. Koven	February, 2019 to August, 2019

Project Title	Publication Date	START Authors	Publication Type
The Risk of Catastrophic Terrorism: An Extreme Value Approach	March 2009	Mohtadi, Hamid	Journal Article
The Nexus between Terrorism and U.S. Product Counterfeiting	July 2014	Sullivan, Brandon; Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Report
The Impact of Terrorism on Italian Employment and Business Activity	February 2007	LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Journal Article
The Economic Impact of Terrorist Incidents on the Italian Hospitality Industry	January 2006		Journal Article
The Determinants of Domestic Right-Wing Terrorism in the USA: Economic Grievance, Societal Change and Political Resentment	March 2015	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
The Cost of Living and Terror: Does Consumer Price Volatility Fuel Terrorism?	April 2013	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Terrorism and Counterfeiting: A Synopsis of Critical Issues and Research Opportunities	November 2009	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Book Chapter
Targeting Strategies in Single-Issue Bomb Attacks	January 2016	Wilson, Margaret	Journal Article
Rooted in Poverty?: Terrorism, Poor Economic Development, and Social Cleavages	December 2006	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Poverty, Minority Economic Discrimination, and Domestic Terrorism	March 2011	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Poverty and Terrorism: A Hypothesis in Search of Evidence	January 2009	Piazza, James A.	Book Chapter
Political Demography of Conflict in Mali	June 2018	Leuprecht, Christian	Report
Perspectives on Political and Social Regional Stability Impacted by Global Crises—A Social Science Context	January 2010	Asal, Victor	White Paper
Oil and Terrorism: An Investigation of Mediators	December 2016	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Nonprofit Service Provision by Insurgent Organizations -- The Cases of Hizballah and the Tamil Tigers	June 2008	Flanigan, Shawn	Journal Article
Geospatial Analysis of Terror Finance	December 2017	Boyd, Marcus A.	Research Brief
Financial Terror: Financial Crime Schemes Involving Extremists Linked to the American Far Right and al-Qaida and Affiliated Movements	January 2017	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Book Chapter
Financial Crime and Material Support Schemes Linked to al-Qa'ida and Affiliated Movements (AQAM) in the United States: 1990 to June 2014	December 2014	Sullivan, Brandon; Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Research Brief
Financial Crime and Material Support Schemes Linked to al-Qa'ida and Affiliated Movements (AQAM) in the United States: 1990 to June 2014	November 2014	Sullivan, Brandon; Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	START Reports
Financial Activities Linked to Persons from Sweden and Denmark who Joined Terrorist Groups in Syria and Iraq During the Period 2013-2016	January 2017	Ranstorp, Magnus	Report
Economic Development, Poorly Managed Political Conflict and Terrorism in India	May 2009	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Don't Follow the Money: The Problem with the War on Terrorist Financing	July 2017	Neumann, Peter	Journal Article
Do Democracy and Free Markets Protect Us from Terrorism?	January 2008	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Crime Terror Alliances and the State. Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security	May 2013		Book
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure	April 2020	Koven, Barnett S.; Lindquist, Katy; Erdemandi, Max	Project Fact Sheet
Cigarette smuggling and terrorism financing	November 2013	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Book Chapter
Causes and Consequences of Terrorism in Africa	November 2014		Journal Article
Assessing the Risk of Terrorism Using Extreme Value Statistics	November 2006	Mohtadi, Hamid	Conference Paper
Applying Social Network Analysis to Terrorist Financing	May 2018	Leuprecht, Christian	Book Chapter
Analyzing Catastrophic Terrorist Events with Applications to the Food Industry	January 2007		Journal Article
100 Days Later: COVID-19: Implications for Managing Terrorism and Asymmetric Threats	June 2020	Braniff, William	Discussion Point

Title	Byline
START seeking 2014 Outstanding Article Award nominations	Jessica Rivinius
START Newsletter: Intelligence and security; perspectives on terrorism; Hezbollah; 'big data' and coding
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06
START adds third course to summer line-up
New study examines FARC’s development of narco-submarines	Valerie Snaman
New research examines financial crime and political extremism
New FAS study assesses global economic impact of actions taken against Iran
100 Days Later: COVID-19: Implications for Managing Terrorism and Asymmetric Threats	Chris Holt, William Braniff, Jerry Smith

Title	Job Title	Institution
Nil Satana	Visiting Associate Professor	University of Maryland
Michelle Jacome	Operations Officer, World Bank
Marcus A. Boyd	Senior Researcher, GIS, START Director, Graduate Studies, START	University of Maryland
Lyubov Mincheva	Executive Director, Graduate Program in International Relations and Security Studies	University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Laura Dugan	Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice	University of Maryland
Karina Panyan	Research Assistant, Global Terrorism Database (GTD), START	University of Maryland
Jun Zhuang	Associate Professor of Engineering	University of Buffalo
James A. Piazza	Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science	Pennsylvania State University
Hamid Mohtadi	Professor of Economics	University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Elizabeth Petrun Sayers	Associate Behavioral and Social Scientist	RAND Corporation
Brandon Behlendorf	Assistant Professor, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, SUNY Albany	University at Albany, State University of New York
Bo Jiang	Graduate Research Assistant, START	University of Maryland
Barnett S. Koven	Training Director Near-peer Competition Lead Researcher Counterterrorism Lead Researcher	University of Maryland