<p>During the post-cold war world, the world's only superpower has encountered an unprecedented challenge: a non-state enemy that is challenging its hegemony and is using violence as a strategic means. Given the international nature of this phenomenon, a structured explanation such as this is given added necessity and urgency. Cornelia Beyer provides a structured explanation for terrorism and its links with the 'Global War on Terror' as it relates to the latter's broader context, causes and implications. She offers a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon of international terrorism and proposes effective policies to counter it. She also remedies the current undertheorized nature of the subject area, and in doing so opens up new modes of thinking about and struggling against global terrorism.</p>

Violent Globalisms: Conflict in Response to Empire

History

Beyer, Cornelia

Americas

Routledge

Since September 11, 2001, the pressure on al-Qaeda has increased. Training sanctuaries and havens have been eliminated, and numerous fighters of the organization have been killed, captured, or are in hiding. Today, al-Qaeda can be understood much more as an ideological platform than an operative terror organization. Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri cannot provide tactical leadership, but they pose a new, more virtual threat insofar as recruitment, training, and indoctrination - as well as propaganda - have moved to small cell operations under the al-Qaeda ideological banner in virtually every country. The execution of the global war on terrorism has not decreased international terrorism directed against the West. In view of this apparent failure of present strategies, the editors of this book have sought the opinions of eight distinguished scholars and experts in the field to reflect on the following questions: What additional actions are required in counter-terrorism policy to reverse the increase in terror-directed activities? What are the main shortcomings of current policy initiatives? What policy recommendations can be made as a result of recent developments in counter-terrorism theory and new data on terror perpetrators and incidents? The answers, set out in this volume, provide important contributions - academic, scientific, and practical - to the debate on how to effectively counter terrorism, which methods to pursue, and which means to apply. The volume is structured in three parts: (1) possible anticipatory actions in the context of counter-terrorism and prevention; (2) the question of reasonable reaction to a perceived or real threat; and (3) discussion on the effects of an attack and how to deal with the aftermath.

Effectively Countering Terrorism: The Challenges of Prevention, Preparedness and Response

Politics & Social Sciences

Bauer, Michael

Politics & Government

Liverpool University Press

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