Fighting terrorism: Are military measures effective? Empirical evidence from Turkey

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 193-205

  Feridun, Mete ^a   Shahbaz, Muhammad ^b  

^a EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Process and Energy Systems Engineering Center PRESTIGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Anti terrorism; Causality testing; Defense spending; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951910590     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242690903568884     Document Type: Article

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