Strategic vs. Opportunistic Looting: The Relationship Between Antiquities Looting and Armed Conflict in Egypt

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dc.contributor.advisorMcGloin, Jeanen_US
dc.contributor.advisorDugan, Lauraen_US
dc.contributor.authorFabiani, Michelle Rose Dippolitoen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCriminology and Criminal Justiceen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-24T06:50:41Z
dc.date.available2017-01-24T06:50:41Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractAntiquities are looted from archaeological sites across the world, seemingly more often in areas of armed conflict. Previously, the relationship between antiquities looting and armed conflict has been assessed with qualitative case studies and journalistic evidence due to a lack of data. This study considers the relationship between antiquities looting and armed conflict in Egypt from 1997 – 2014 with a newly collected time series dataset. A combination of Lag-augmented Vector Autoregression (LA-VAR) and Autoregressive Distributed Lag Models (ARDL) is used to look at both the overall relationship between these two phenomena and their temporal ordering. Ultimately, this thesis finds that: (1) antiquities looting and armed conflict have a positive statistically significant relationship, (2) there is stronger support for antiquities looting preceding armed conflict than for the reverse temporal ordering, and (3) this relationship varies by type of conflict.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2N24R
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/19024
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCriminologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchaeologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAntiquities Lootingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArchaeological Lootingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArmed Conflicten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEgypten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTerrorismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledVector Autoregressionen_US
dc.titleStrategic vs. Opportunistic Looting: The Relationship Between Antiquities Looting and Armed Conflict in Egypten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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