@article{IR,
      recid = {6329},
      author = {Lancia, Nicholas Joseph},
      title = {COVID-19 and Global Security},
      journal = {Honors Projects},
      address = {2023-17},
      number = {IR},
      abstract = {Terrorist groups are most active in developing areas of  the world and thrive on instability. The ripple effects of  the COVID-19 pandemic has increased unemployment and  poverty while decreasing economic output and government  efficacy in the developing world. I argue that these  effects may have the secondary effect of leading to more  violence involving terrorist groups and other non-state  actors. Using a global sample of data on non-state violence  from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project  (ACLED), I find a statistically significant and positive  relationship between COVID-19 deaths and the number of  battles. I also present a case study of the Lake Chad Basin  in Africa’s Sahel, the region of the world most afflicted  by terrorist attacks, to identify the effects of COVID-19  on increased terrorist activities.},
      url = {http://digitalcollections.ric.edu/record/6329},
}