TMENA 2: Terrorism Radicalization and Government Policy in MENA

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Terrorisme, Radicalisation et Politique Gouvernementale dans les Pays Arabes - AAPG ANR 2017

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Regime security and taxation in autocracies: Who is taxed and how?

Published in the European Journal of Political Economy Authors: Marina Dodlova and Viola Lucas Abstract: We study taxation by autocratic …

What are the economic effects of terrorism?

Toute Economie Lyon Twenty years ago, the New York attacks marked a break in the history of international terrorism. For …

15th Annual Households in Conflict Network Workshop “New Methods in Empirical Conflict Research”

Christophe Muller will present the paper Minorities at Risk Organisations: Terrorism, Insurgency, State Repression, and Cycles of Violence, co-written with Pierre …

Go to political economy of government policies and dynamics with increasing violence and radicalization

political economy of government policies and dynamics with increasing violence and radicalization

We study the types of social insecurities that might lead to higher violence and citizen mobilization. In studying the root causes of political uprisings, we go beyond inequality consider all types of grievances, including lack of democratization.
Go to Relationship between domestic ‘every day’ violence and violence outside of the home

Relationship between domestic ‘every day’ violence and violence outside of the home

The MENA region has the second highest prevalence rates of intimate partner violence and the highest rates of severe physical punishment of children. We analyse as comprehensively as possible the developmental impact of different types of violence in the MENA region.
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Databases

We use the Minorities at Risk Organisational Database, and the Global Terrorism Database, along other sources of information.

Our team faces methodological challenges, like data availability or the use of advanced econometrics techniques. We also unlock theoretical obstacles as the literature does not provide any comprehensive framework on these issues¸ especially, on the link between government policies and political mobilization and violence.

Sponsors and Partners

France is the centre of this reseach network, which spans from the United Kingdom, to Germany, and Egypt.

Our Approach

Our Research Questions

  • This is a four year project, 2017-2021

  • We have organised the `TMENA2 Launch Meeting' and the Workshop `Ethnic and Spatial Confrontations: Incomes, Networks and Terrorism'

  • Journal Articles : such as "What are the costs of violence?" and "Social transfers and conditionalities under different regime types."

    List of publications

  • List of working papers

OUR TEAM

Uniting Researchers from France, Switzerland, Egypt, the United Kingdom, and Germany

Christophe Muller

Project Manager
Professor of economics and statistics at the University of Aix-Marseille in France

Ahmed Yousuf

Research Associate
Currently a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Aix Marseille School of Economics, having graduated from University of Arkansas PhD Economics in 2021, with thesis focus being on spatial econometric application in conflict research as well as implementation of satellite-based data to augment sub-national economic growth estimates. Ahmed Yousuf is primarily interested in the broad intersection of economic geography and development as well related dimensions as conflict poverty nexus, etc. At AMSE, he is engaged in further looking into the dynamics between Conflict and other socio-economic parameters of interest in regions of interest.

Marina Dodlova

Research Associate
Marina Dodlova has a PhD in Economics from University Paris Ouest Nanterre, and has a position of Assistant Professor at the University of Passau. Her research interests include the political economy of development.

Sultan Mehmood

Research Associate
Sultan Mehmood obtained his Phd in economics at the Paris-Dauphine University in October 2019. His research provides an understanding of the conditions for establishment of rule of law in societies and its consequent impact on development.

Eric Strobl

Research Associate
Eric Strobl is Professor in Environmental and Climate Economics at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Trinity College. He has an extensive record of publication in journals, such as Journal of Urban Economics, and Journal of Development Economics.

Mona Said

Research Associate
Mona Said is associate professor of economics and chair of Department of Economics at The American University of Cairo, Egypt. She earned her PhD degree in Economics from University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. She also held operational positions at the MENA Department of the World Bank.

Cyrine Hannafi

Research Associate
Cyrine Hannafi obtained her Phd in economics at the Aix-Marseille University in November 2018. Her research focuses on the health-poverty-development triangle, advanced cointegration issues, and the recent violence in Syria.

Pierre Pecher

Project Co-Manager
Pierre Pecher holds a PhD in Economics from UCLouvain. He is post-doctoral research fellow at Aix-Marseille University. He has published in Economics of Governance, and has a forthcoming paper in the Journal of African Economies.

Krisztina Kis-Katos

Research Associate
Krisztina Kis-Katos is professor for International Economic Policy at the University of Göttingen. Her research interests comprise development economics, political economy and the economics of conflict.

Mina Ayad

Mina Ayad is an Assistant professor of Economics specialized in international trade and globalization issues.

Anke Hoeffler

Humboldt Professor at the University of Konstanz

Christine Binzel

Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

Sanjay Jain

Lecturer at the University of Oxford

Rami Galal

Research Associate
Rami Galal is Assistant Professor of Economics at the American University in Cairo. His research covers issues in development economics, labor economics, and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa. He has worked with the World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

News and Publications

The proximity of the MENA region to Europe justifies studying the repercussions in terms of radicalism and violence of the socio-economic events that have occurred in the MENA and neighboring countries. Several privileged themes of the project are:
1. The causes and consequences of radicalization in terms of violence in society.
2. Evaluation of economic and social policies as a means of reducing violence and radicalization.
3. Violent relationships between organizations representing ethnic minorities and the state.
4. Cross-border effects of policy changes in MENA and Africa.
5. The determinants of social policies in MENA and developing countries
6. Migration, inequality, transfer, development and violence

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