An empirical analysis of terrorism: Deprivation, islamism and geopolitical factors

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 329-341

  Bravo, Ana Bela Santos ^a,b   Dias, Carlos Manuel Mendes ^a  

^a Academia Militar   (Portugal)

^b ISEG LISBON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Deprivation; Econometric estimation; Geopolitics; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745995426     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242690500526509     Document Type: Article

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