by:
Efraim Benmelech
Esteban F. Klor
4. Conclusion
Using data on the number of ISIS foreign fighters from around the world, we provide a systematic
analysis of the link between economic, political, and social conditions and the global phenomenon of
ISIS foreign fighters. Our results show that, in contrast to conjectures made recently by economists
and policy makers, economic conditions are not the root causes of the global phenomenon of ISIS
foreign fighters. In fact, many foreign fighters originate from countries with high levels of economic
development, low income inequality, and highly developed political institutions.
If poverty and lack of social equality are not to blame, then why are Western European countries
disproportionately significant sources of ISIS foreign fighters? The reason lies in other country
characteristics: they are ethnically and linguistically homogenous. In fact, the more homogenous
the host country is, the greater difficulty immigrants such as Muslims from the Middle East experience
in assimilating. As other research has shown, isolation induces some of them to become
radicalized.
Discuss.
*For each country, the official
count of ISIS foreign fighters is listed along with unofficial estimates when available. As the table
demonstrates, Tunisia has the highest number of ISIS foreign fighters (6,000), followed by Saudi
Arabia (2,500), Russia (2,400), Turkey (2,100), and Jordan (2,000). Among countries in Western
Europe, France has the highest number of ISIS foreign fighters (1,700), followed by Germany (760),
the United Kingdom (760), and Belgium (470). Cambodia, Moldova, Romania, and South Africa
have only one ISIS foreign fighter each.
>>72099119
>Isolation induces radicalization
No. The isolation enables the radicalizers to operate openly. Muslims don't want to integrate because the rest of the citizens are animals to them.
>>72099119
>>72099316
Furthermore, this research seems to conclude that the solution to ISIS is more diversity in non-Muslim communities, which goes along with a certain agenda quite cozily.
Typical criminal nigger + Islam.
It isn't anymore complicated than that.
>>72099316
>>72099586
my thoughts also.
they do admit to being the first ever to find this correlation.
the main issues still seems to be a free mobility.
go to Syria with their EU passport, come back incognito, and radicalise on sight.
>>72099119
>if you dont accept them they become terrorists
keep those ticking timebombs away
this is the abstact:
This paper provides the first systematic analysis of the link between economic, political, and
social conditions and the global phenomenon of ISIS foreign fighters. We find that poor
economic conditions do not drive participation in ISIS. In contrast, the number of ISIS foreign
fighters is positively correlated with a country's GDP per capita and Human Development Index
(HDI). In fact, many foreign fighters originate from countries with high levels of economic
development, low income inequality, and highly developed political institutions. Other factors
that explain the number of ISIS foreign fighters are the size of a country's Muslim population and
its ethnic homogeneity. Although we cannot directly determine why people join ISIS, our results
suggest that the flow of foreign fighters to ISIS is driven not by economic or political conditions
but rather by ideology and the difficulty of assimilation into homogeneous Western countries.
>>72099983
>homogeneous Western countries
Do they provide their definition of "homogeneous" ??
>>72099119
Its German leaders trying to conquer Europe again! WW1,WW2 and now again with the slightly different approach of actually letting Islam do all the dirty work.
>>72100218
not really.
the only nuance they introduce is by adding, Ethnically and linguistically.
>>72100286
German leaders STILL think like Hitler. just a little more subdued in their approach.
THIS IS A GOOD /POL/ TOPIC
(Sorry for yelling)
>>72099983
That explains why chinks and poo-in-loos blow themselves up when they are only small numbers in foreign countries.
Oh except it doesn't and the researchers are being wilfully blind by not naming Arab/Muslim culture.
>>72100340
Then their conclusion about the assimilation is trash propaganda.
>Move to a country that you can't interact in because no valuable credentials for a good job and you don't speak the language
>Get angry as you live in the ghetto of other people who wanted the gibsmedats
>Radical Imam claims its the native's of the fault
>Allahu Ackbar we ISIS now
>>72100633
not really, considering fractionalization is quantifiable. hence they ado not need to provide more of a definition.
http://www.nsd.uib.no/macrodataguide/set.html?id=16&sub=1
>>72100898
Could you please walk me through this? They are implying that the harder it is to assimilate, the more they tend to join ISIS, right? But then how do they explain the fact that there are more people leaving from Britain/France and not many, if any, from Poland or Slovakia? I would argue that London is waaaaaay more heterogeneous that let say Warsaw. It seems very counter intuitive.
>>72100286
Self-genocide isn't conquering Europe, straya. If anything the political class of Germany hates native Germans as the PC of the EU hates the white race.
God...I'm seriously getting depressed right now...enough /pol/ for today.
It does not matter WHY islam is a terrorist cult. Just matters when we ALL commit to exterminating the cult of ISLAM.
>>72101504
No offence to you personally. But somethings afoot with your Leaders and it could be worse than just Political correctness. sorry to depress to you.
>>72101310
well apparently not..
fractionalization is a calculation of the probability that two radomly picked citizen share the same ethnicity, religion, language etc.
the numbers are taken from this database set in 2003 that has been annually updated since.
>>72101310
keep in mind that their is an undeniable positive correlation with the GDP per Capita and HDI of a country.
>>72102248
Ok, so they took the whole country and said it was too homogeneous instead of taking the city where the muslims live?
>>72102392
thats what the data is yes.
but i'm not sure what its like in the UK, but in france and italy the dispotion of the muslim population is fairly spread out all over the country, so i personally don't think that the numbers are too far off base.
>>72102604
Very interesting, thanks for the explanation, now it makes sense. I still think that it is bullshit that white people are to be blamed for this, though.
>>72099119
The society that would produce the least ISIS fighters is one without Mudslimes.
>Esteban F. Klor
>Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
