Transnational Terrorism and the Internet

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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Main Authors: Do, Quy-Toan, Gomez-Parra, Nicolas, Rijkers, Bob
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:
INTERNET
SOCIAL MEDIA
TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM
ISLAMIC STATE
DAESH RECRUITMENT
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/973841639578206813/Transnational-Terrorism-and-the-Internet
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spelling okr-10986-367432021-12-17T05:10:56Z Transnational Terrorism and the Internet Do, Quy-Toan Gomez-Parra, Nicolas Rijkers, Bob INTERNET SOCIAL MEDIA TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM ISLAMIC STATE DAESH RECRUITMENT 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. 2021-12-16T17:14:10Z 2021-12-16T17:14:10Z 2021-12 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/973841639578206813/Transnational-Terrorism-and-the-Internet http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36743 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9885 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Middle East and North Africa Iraq Lebanon Tunisia
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topic INTERNET
SOCIAL MEDIA
TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM
ISLAMIC STATE
DAESH RECRUITMENT
spellingShingle INTERNET
SOCIAL MEDIA
TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM
ISLAMIC STATE
DAESH RECRUITMENT
Do, Quy-Toan
Gomez-Parra, Nicolas
Rijkers, Bob
Transnational Terrorism and the Internet
geographic_facet Middle East and North Africa
Iraq
Lebanon
Tunisia
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9885
description 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.
format Working Paper
author Do, Quy-Toan
Gomez-Parra, Nicolas
Rijkers, Bob
author_facet Do, Quy-Toan
Gomez-Parra, Nicolas
Rijkers, Bob
author_sort Do, Quy-Toan
title Transnational Terrorism and the Internet
title_short Transnational Terrorism and the Internet
title_full Transnational Terrorism and the Internet
title_fullStr Transnational Terrorism and the Internet
title_full_unstemmed Transnational Terrorism and the Internet
title_sort transnational terrorism and the internet
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/973841639578206813/Transnational-Terrorism-and-the-Internet
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36743
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