The effects of economic and political factors on international terrorism

In this study, the number of terror events relating to 97 countries between years 1988 and 2003 and average number of fatality and total number of injured which were caused by terror events per year was obtained. The effects of economic and politic factors on international terrorism were investigated by using econometric techniques such as panel count poisson, ordered probit and seemingly unrelated regression.According to econometric test results, increasing in GDPPC, trade volume, urbanization and education expenditure as a percentage of GDP decrease terror incidents. In addition to this result, increasing in the unemployment increases terror incidents. As a different result, an increase that happens in military expenditures increases the terror incidents.