Bapat, NA, De la Calle, L, Hinkkainen, KH orcid.org/0000-0002-7552-0882 et al. (1 more author) (2016) Economic Sanctions, Transnational Terrorism, and the Incentive to Misrepresent. Journal of Politics, 78 (1). pp. 249-264. ISSN 0022-3816
Abstract
Can economic sanctions combat transnational terrorism effectively? Policy makers argue that sanctions can deter state sponsorship but are counterproductive against hosts of transnational terrorists. However, recent cases indicate that governments are often uncertain if foreign states are truly sponsors versus hosts and cannot perfectly determine the type of foreign support terrorists are receiving. We argue that this uncertainty, coupled with the proposed strategy of punishing sponsors while cooperating with hosts, creates incentives for sponsors to misrepresent themselves as host states while continuing their support for terrorists. We demonstrate that in this environment of uncertainty, governments rely on information regarding the state capacity of supporting states to deduce their relationship with terrorists. Consequently, governments are more likely to impose sanctions against foreign states with intermediate levels of state capacity but are less likely to impose sanctions against failing or stronger states.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 by the Southern Political Science Association. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | terrorism, economic sanctions, state sponsorship, bargaining. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2017 11:19 |
Last Modified: | 07 Jun 2018 12:26 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1086/683257 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:120133 |