ARE TERRORISTS RATIONAL?
Marek Loužek Politická ekonomie, 2009, vol. 2009, issue 2, pages 177-193 Abstract: The aim of the paper is to outline an economic theory of security in international perspective. First section highlights the economic theory of alliances. Second section examines the defence economics. Third section looks at terrorism from rational choice theory point of view. Forth section analyses security dilemmas in the war on terror. Fifth section explores reactions of government policies. Sixth section explains security as a relative concept. Keywords: rational choice theory; national security; international terrorism; defence economics (search for similar items in EconPapers) JEL-codes: C7 D7 H4 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Date: 2009 Track citations by RSS feed Downloads: (external link) http://www.vse.cz/polek/download.php?jnl=polek&pdf=680.pdf http://www.vse.cz/polek/abstrakt.php3?IDcl=680 (text/html) free of charge, full text delayed 1 year Related works: This item may be available