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This article provides a comprehensive study of the economic determinants of domestic and transnational terrorism and the role that the economy plays in fostering a more peaceful world. We describe the research associated with the microfoundations of terrorist groups and how they organize. We also analyse models of conflict resolution to investigate the relative importance of macroeconomic factors for domestic and transnational terrorism. We describe a number of data-sets employed by researchers in the field and end by describing the most recent research which investigates the linkages between terrorism, democratization, globalization and development.

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Blomberg, S.B., Hess, G.D. (2018). Terrorism, Economics Of. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2107

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