AID TO WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT EFFORTS AS AN APPROACH TO COUNTERTERRORISM: A TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS

Does aid to women's empowerment efforts reduce terrorism? In this study, a time-series analysis utilizing the most comprehensive databases on both aid and terrorism attemps to answer this question. The results of a series of negative binomial regression models tentatively show that while aid to women's empowerment efforts may decrease the frequency of transnational terrorist incidents exported by a source country, it may increase the amount of terrorism occuring in the aid recipient country.