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ECONOMY
In the documentary about the
legendary car DeLorean DMC-
12, manufactured in 1976, which
these days is being broadcast on this topic, the political doctrine is en-
History Channel, an important
information is that the Government of
the United Kingdom, which subsidized
the opening of the factory, insisted that in the countries where terrorists are
it is built on the very border between
two warring fronts, the Catholic and
the Protestant front, in the outskirts
of Belfast. As some of the workers at
the time testify in the film, “the poli-
tics stayed behind the factory doors”,
and the opening of a significant num-
ber of jobs contributed for reduction
of the tensions and indirectly for the
reduction of the propensity of the pop-
ulation to the Irish Republican Army.
While the fans of this legendary car are
waiting for the Texas factory to release
its new version next year, the politi-
cians, before the economists, quote
this north-Irish example as another
evidence in favor of the belief that eco- is a national security, it is not mercy.
nomic prosperity is a long-term solu-
tion for suppression of terrorism.
The holders of public policies have
strong reasons to encourage study of
the causes of terrorism, including its
potential economic roots.
The number of deaths in the world
as a consequence of terrorist attacks
increased from 3,329 in 2000 to 32,685
people in 2014, announced the Institute
of Economy and Peace in November last
year. Most human lives, 78%, were lost
in five countries: Iraq, Nigeria, Afghan- apart from having bad education, they
istan, Pakistan, and Syria. Boko Haram
and ISIS are considered responsible for
almost 50% of these deadly outcomes.
Terrorist attacks have been registered
in 93 countries, from France to Austria
and Australia, and the reports for 2015
and 2016 will probably be even more
unfavorable.
The research of the relation between
the terrorism of the socio-economic
surrounding and the susceptibility of
the groups or the individual within a
society is not a new field, however par-
ticularly in the Anglo-American litera-
ture it culminated with the series of
terrorist attacks in the United Stated
on September 11, 2001. Parallel to the
growth of the number of studies on
throned, from Bush to Colin Powell,
from Obama to John Kerry, that the
United States will fight against poverty
recruited because there are beliefs that
the hope for a better future triumphs
above the propensity for violence.
Shortly, if people can dedicate their
time and resources to occupations
that are more appropriate to their
social status and are more profitable,
they will be less prone to gamble with
something like that. Or as the Ameri-
can President Bill Clinton said in 2002:
“You must have a positive strategy in
order to have more partners and less
terrorists. Harry Truman and George
Marshall used a small part of our mon-
ey in order to build a world with more
friends and better enemies. Foreign aid
Marshall’s plan understood that in this
manner, and we have to do the same
today.”
Marshall’s plan for the Middle East
is a mantra which has always been
continuously repeated, and once the
demolished countries are observed,
where the terrorists recruit their fol-
lowers, the plan acts understandable
by itself. The bitter poor people who
have no opportunities for a normal
life and cannot provide safe future for
their children, become radicalized and,
are particularly prepared to become
suicide bombers. The religious martyrs
have a strong economic motive for this
because they provide their families a
prominent place in the society, which
could not belong to them according to
their past position on the bottom of
the scale, and they also get lifetime fi-
nancial support from the community.
Large part of the economic literature
contradicts to each of the sub-segments
of this line of thinking. Alan B. Krueger
and Jitka Maleckova, professors from
Princeton and from Charles University
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