The Relationship between the Stability of the Political Regime and the Likelihood of Terrorist Attacks on Its Territory

Student: Minina Anastasia

Supervisor: Dina Rosenberg

Educational Programme: Political Science (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

The work is devoted to the investigation of terrorist activity in countries with different levels of political regime stability. The stability of the political regime is operationalized in the work as the duration of its existence since the last transit. The study conducts regression analysis on an array of panel data for 147 countries of the world for 2000-2014. The regression results confirm the existence of a positive relationship between the duration of the regime and a decrease in the level of terrorist activity in the country where it was established. The study also analyzes the most striking cases for a selected time period, during which additional factors that contribute to a change in the terrorist situation in the country were identified.

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