Victim Countries of Transnational Terrorism: An Empirical Characteristics Analysis

  1. Levan Elbakidze1,*,
  2. Yanhong Jin2

Article first published online: 7 MAY 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01815.x

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Risk Analysis

Risk Analysis

Volume 32, Issue 12, pages 2152–2165, December 2012

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Elbakidze, L. and Jin, Y. (2012), Victim Countries of Transnational Terrorism: An Empirical Characteristics Analysis. Risk Analysis, 32: 2152–2165. doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01815.x

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  1. 1

    University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA

  2. 2

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

* Seniority of authorship is shared. Address correspondence to Levan Elbakidze, PO Box 442334, 606 Rayburn St., Moscos, ID 83844-2334, USA; lelbakidze@uidoaho.edu.

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  1. Issue published online: 12 DEC 2012
  2. Article first published online: 7 MAY 2012

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Keywords:

  • GDP;
  • transnational terrorism;
  • United Nations;
  • victims

This study empirically investigates the association between country-level socioeconomic characteristics and risk of being victimized in transnational terrorism events. We find that a country's annual financial contribution to the U.N. general operating budget has a positive association with the frequency of being victimized in transnational terrorism events. In addition, per capita GDP, political freedom, and openness to trade are nonlinearly related to the frequency of being victimized in transnational terrorism events.

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