MPACUK : US Policy, not Poverty, ‘is cause of Terrorism’

US Policy, not Poverty, ‘is cause of Terrorism’ By Paul Hutcheon
A leading US academic will challenge the establishment this week when he makes the controversial claim that poverty is not the root cause of inter national terrorism.

Alan Krueger, professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, will say suicide bombers tend to come from middle-class families. He will also argue that terrorism is directly motivated by US policy decisions. Krueger’s arguments will be made in a prestigious three-part lecture series at the London School of Economics, beginning on Tuesday.

The former member of the Clinton administration will present new research on the “causes and consequences” of terrorism, which he says have been misunderstood.

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