TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - Failed states and connections to terrorist activity JO - International criminal justice review A1 - Plummer, Chelli SP - 416 EP - 449 VL - 22 IS - 4 N2 - A strong connection has been drawn between failed and/or failing states and terrorism. Not all failed/failing states promote equal amounts of terrorism. This article compares failed states that promote high degrees of terrorism with those that promote low degrees of terrorism by using a twofold approach. First, ordinary lease square regression is used to examine the aspects of state failure in relation to terrorism and second, a comparison is drawn between failed states that promote high degrees of terrorism with those that promote low degrees of terrorism in a case study analysis of Somalia and the Ivory Coast. The results suggest that the relationship between state failure and terrorism is more complex than a simple linear causal process and that examination of the processes involved in state failure are integral in understanding why some states experience high levels of terrorist activity while others do not.

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LA - en SN - 1057-5677 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1057567712465752 ID - ref1 ER -