| ID | 140404 |
| Title Proper | Transnational terrorism as an unintended consequence of a military footprint |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Braithwaite, Alex |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Terrorist groups commonly cite the local presence of foreign troops as a motivation for their violence. This article examines the validity and robustness of the proposition that the deployment of military capabilities overseas provokes terrorist violence against the deploying state's global interests. A cross-national dataset, combining data on foreign troop deployments and transnational terrorist violence directed against states' global interests, is used to create a series of empirical models at the directed-dyad-year level of analysis. Descriptive statistics and multivariate analyses provide corroborative evidence of territorial terrorism. These findings are robust to a wide variety of alternative specifications and to the use of instrumental variables regression to model the potential endogeneity of terrorism to troop deployment decisions. |
| `In' analytical Note | Security Studies Vol. 24, No.2; Apr/Jun 2015: p.349-375 |
| Journal Source | Security Studies Vol: 24 No 2 |
| Key Words | Terrorist Groups ; Transnational Terrorism ; Military Capabilities ; Unintended Consequence ; Military Footprint ; Potential Endogeneity |