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The challenge for policymakers on both continents is to contain the rise of
terrorism
without eroding hard-won freedoms.
In the face of transnational, global security threats – including jihadist terrorism, but also the spread of pandemics and the consequences of climate change – the need for much closer and more effective European-African cooperation has become increasingly clear.
So far, the death toll stands at 22, many of them children, making the attack on the Manchester Arena Britain’s worst encounter with
terrorism
since the London Underground bombings in July 2005, which killed 52.
Together with the pro-democracy army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, this coalition can address Pakistan’s most pressing challenges, including
terrorism.
More ominously, in a move reminiscent of Stalin, Putin has initiated a new anti-extremism law, according to which anyone can be accused of terrorism, espionage, being a foreign agent, or disseminating hatred.
Some limited cooperation in countering
terrorism
and in Afghanistan might still be possible.
Nor does the Middle East have a monopoly on Islamist extremism, ethnic tension, or
terrorism.
Instead of being an international leader in the worldwide war against terrorism, it is sinking into the despair of a perpetual victim.
Three years ago, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rather smugly told President George W. Bush in Delhi that Indian Muslims were not involved in any act of
terrorism.
At the same time, nomads have been perpetrators of violence and
terrorism.
It remains a defensive alliance, but one ready to attack to protect peace and stability or to fight
terrorism
and nuclear proliferation.
The World Without AmericaNEW YORK – Let me posit a radical idea: The most critical threat facing the United States now and for the foreseeable future is not a rising China, a reckless North Korea, a nuclear Iran, modern terrorism, or climate change.
If one treats so-called “hacktivism” by ideological groups as mostly a disruptive nuisance at this stage, there remain four major categories of cyber threats to national security, each with a different time horizon: cyber war and economic espionage are largely associated with states, and cyber crime and cyber
terrorism
are mostly associated with non-state actors.
For the US, the highest costs currently stem from espionage and crime, but over the next decade or so, war and
terrorism
could become greater threats than they are today.
Today, when the central fear in Western countries is of international instability and terrorism, the NATO allies are far less united in how to respond.
Ironically, the programs that Snowden revealed seem to have helped prevent massive new
terrorism
events, such as a bomb attack on the New York subways.
Unlike Iran’s support for Hezbollah in Lebanon and other forms of terrorism, which Israel can manage, the nuclear question represents an existential threat.
Of course, they will say they were fighting terrorism, as if that excuses their indiscriminate methods and reckless disregard for civilian lives.
Indeed, killing violent Islamists and al-Qaeda affiliates is applauded by the international community, especially the United States, as success in the “war on terrorism.”
At an ostentatious gathering of 50 Arab Sunni leaders in Riyadh, Trump was told that an Israeli-Palestine peace agreement would cement a grand pro-American Arab-Israeli alliance against Islamist
terrorism
and a resurgent Iran.
Scroll down any day’s news summary and you find stories of
terrorism
and violence perpetrated in the cause of a false view of religion.
But, as Obama’s national security adviser, Tom Donilon, recently explained, US foreign policy over the past few years has been buffeted by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, concerns about terrorism, nuclear-proliferation threats in Iran and North Korea, and the recent Arab uprisings.
Following Moldova’s example, all countries should also ensure that law-enforcement officers are properly trained to respond to the menace of nuclear
terrorism.
But, far from making Europeans safer, rolling back Schengen would actually hinder the fight against terrorism, because countries would be forced to devote valuable resources – thousands of police officers, if the agreement were to be abolished altogether – to checking documents at borders.
Bush countered with concerns about security against
terrorism
and cultural populism on issues such as gay marriage and abortion rights.
The largest number (22%) answered “moral values,” comparison to 20% who cited the economy and 19% who mentioned
terrorism.
None of this will translate into an effective offensive against terrorism, either.
The growing role of the UN in this process puts the seal of international law and diplomacy over the global struggle against terrorism, and helps to reassure many countries that this is a true international effort, not just the US acting alone.
While these seem to be a grab-bag of achievements, they point to a single message: the world community is finding new ways to cooperate, even against a backdrop of
terrorism
and global recession.
Many Europeans have lost trust in an EU establishment that seems incompetent, self-serving, and out of touch – a perception reinforced by EU leaders’ chaotic response to the refugee crisis, which populists have been quick to exploit by linking the newcomers to
terrorism.
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