دانلود کتاب اقتصاد تروریسم و اقدامات مقابله با تروریسم تاریخ، نظریه و شواهد

The book grew out of an upper-undergraduate class, Economics of War and Terror (later titled Economics ofWar, Terror and Conflict), that I taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during 2015–2018. I clearly remember when Martin Perry, Chairman of the Department of Economics, wrote tome in 2014 that he would like me to teach this course as a visiting professor. I was excited at the prospect of teaching such an offbeat-topic course, but apprehensive too. I knew that Walter Enders and Todd Sandler had published a book, entitled The Political Economy of Terrorism, which I hadn’t read but had heard about. I wasn’t sure if this book will work for the course. Another well-respected textbook on terrorism by Jonathan White, Terrorism and Homeland Security, came to my knowledge later. In any case, I was more familiar with research papers on terrorism (and virtually nothing on war) published in professional journals and had no idea about how one could frame the main ideas of frontline research papers that are technically demanding in terms of tools that a junior or a senior undergraduate student would grasp. But, somehow, I had the inner confidence that I will be able to figure this out on my own. Essentially, that happened. As I taught the course repeatedly over the semesters, the slides got better, I discovered many other pieces of research in and outside of economics, and the proportion of lectures on terrorism in the total number of lectures on terrorism, war, and conflict grew. Apart frommy own enthusiasm, two things kept me going. First, it is the students. At the semester end, some of them would come up tome and say that it was a difficult course—unlike what they had anticipated in the beginning—and yet they enjoyed it. Some even went to the extent of expressing that it was one of the best courses they took at UIUC. This was immensely gratifying. I had taught undergraduate courses in economics in the USA several decades ago, but my evaluation in this course turned out to be the best in my long teaching career. (For a change, no one complained about my “foreign” accent in the course evaluation forms.) I found the undergraduate students at UIUC smart, enthusiastic, and receptive. Second, it is the appreciation and support I received from Martin Perry. On almost every occasion where he would introduce me to someone, he would say that I was teaching this course and it was quite popular. He even mentioned that when he introduced me as a visiting faculty in the graduation ceremony at the end of the 2016–2017 academic year. I am grateful to Martin Perry.