James A. Piazza
Incubators of Terror: Do Failed and Failing States Promote Transnational Terrorism?
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
growing body scholars policymakers raised concerns failed failing states pose danger international security produce conditions transnational terrorist groups thrive study devises empirical test proposition along countertheories using simple descriptive statistics timeseries crossnational negative binomial analysis 197 countries 1973 2003 finds states plagued chronic state failures statistically likely host terrorist groups commit transnational attacks nationals commit transnational attacks likely targeted transnational terrorists