Transnational Terrorism and the Internet
Does the internet enable the recruitment of transnational terrorists Using geo-referenced population census data and personnel records from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant—a highly tech-savvy terrorist organization—this paper shows that in...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/973841639578206813/Transnational-Terrorism-and-the-Internet http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36743 |
| Summary: | Does the internet enable the
recruitment of transnational terrorists Using geo-referenced
population census data and personnel records from the
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant—a highly tech-savvy
terrorist organization—this paper shows that internet access
has facilitated the organization’s recruitment of foreign
fighters from Tunisia. The positive association between
internet access and Daesh recruitment is robust to
controlling for a large set of observable and unobservable
confounders as well as instrumenting internet access rates
with the incidence of lightning strikes. |
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