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The Trade-Offs of Counterterrorism Policies
This article provides a modern overview of counterterrorism tools and their trade-offs for curbing terrorist attacks and their consequences. Defensive and proactive countermeasures constitute two main classes of counterterror tools deployed by targeted governments. The primary drawback of defensive actions, which make terrorist attacks more costly and less apt to succeed, is attack transference that shifts the mode, venue, or target of attacks to those less protected. In contrast, offensive proactive measures, which confront the terrorists directly, may result in backlash as terrorist ...
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Immigration from a terror-prone nation: destination nation’s optimal immigration and counterterrorism policies
The paper presents a two-country model in which a destination country chooses its immigration quota and proactive counterterrorism actions in response to immigration from a terror-plagued source country. After the destination country fixes its two policies, immigrants decide between supplying labor or conducting terrorist attacks, which helps determine equilibrium labor supply and wages. The analysis accounts for the marginal disutility of lost rights/freedoms stemming from stricter counterterror measures as well the inherent radicalization of migrants. Comparative statics involve changes to ...
Working Paper
A Strategic Analysis of Narcoterrorism: Counterterrorism, Terrorist Extortion, and Illicit Drug Trafficking
The paper presents a novel strategic analysis of narcoterrorism where a developing country’s terrorist group extorts home drug farmers to finance terror attacks. A developed country’s counterterror actions are motivated by the harm its residents endure from those attacks. The developed country’s counterterrorism involves efforts to destroy the drug crop abroad. The analysis begins with the drug price being exogenously fixed, followed by a “large-country case’’ with a market-determined drug price. The extension introduces a fourth participant, consisting of the developed ...