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The New Public Finance$
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Inge Kaul and Pedro Conceiçāo

Print publication date: 2006

Print ISBN-13: 9780195179972

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179972.001.0001

Recognizing the Limits to Cooperation behind National Borders

Financing the Control of Transnational Terrorism

Chapter:
(p. 194 ) Recognizing the Limits to Cooperation behind National Borders
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The New Public Finance
Author(s):

Inge Kaul

Pedro Conceiçāo

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179972.003.0008

This chapter discusses the importance of recognizing the limits of international cooperation in financing the control of transnational terrorism. It describes some of the characteristics of and trends in transnational terrorism and examines the cooperation challenges in controlling this phenomenon. The result suggests that the pre-emption strategy has the properties of a pure public good while the protection strategy has the characteristics of what economists call a weakest link public good.

Keywords:   transnational terrorism, protection strategy, international cooperation, public good, pre-emption strategy

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