Graduate Program

Economics

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Semester of Degree Completion

2008

Thesis Director

Alan Grant

Thesis Committee Member

Mukti Upadhay

Thesis Committee Member

Tim Mason

Abstract

This paper analyzes the impacts of economic, political, and cultural globalization on transnational terrorism using world-level data in a semi-log structure for the years 1970-2000. There are currently two opposing frameworks, which are explored in this research: destructive globalization and civilizing globalization. The empirical results are evaluated and each variable is classified as support for one of the opposing theories. The economic and cultural facets of globalization are divided among their support for the opposing theories while the spread of democracy produces strong support for the civilizing globalization theory.

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