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Membership of a terrorist organization, including those operating on foreign soil, training and recruiting people for terrorism, and promotion of terrorism have been made criminal offenses.
The fight against international terrorism raises important legal questions.
This has been and remains the most sustainable way of preventing radicalization and recruitment to terrorism.
These issues were put on hold when tragedy unexpectedly struck, in the form of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US, which brought a period of international cooperation during which solidarity against terrorism reigned.
According to Harvard’s Benjamin Friedman, prolonged periods of economic distress have been characterized also by public antipathy toward minority groups or foreign countries – attitudes that can help to fuel unrest, terrorism, or even war.
Fighting the "New" TerrorismAs the US presidential heats up, critics argue that President George W. Bush's war in Iraq has made the problem of combating terrorism worse.
It is a serious charge, because the world needs a broader strategy against terrorism.
These technological and ideological trends increased both the lethality and the difficulty of managing terrorism.
It is now easy to envisage extremist groups and individuals killing millions without government helpPolitics has plagued efforts to agree on a common definition of terrorism at the United Nations.
Some skeptics argue that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, and that treating suppression of terrorism as a global public good is thus merely the hypocrisy of the powerful trying to disarm the weak.
While any definition of terrorism has problems at the margins, the core of terrorism is clear enough to permit efforts to de-legitimize it.
If a campaign to suppress terrorism is based on broad coalitions that focus on de-legitimizing attacks on innocent non-combatants, it has some prospect of success.
But critics of Bush at home and abroad must also realize that, notwithstanding past mistakes, pursuing a common strategy is essential, because terrorism is here to stay.
The danger of nuclear terrorism constitutes one of the gravest threats to our collective security.
For example, the OIC said in its statement that “Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism.”
To demonstrate that it is wrong to associate Islam with terrorism, the OIC might begin to compile statistics on the religious affiliations of those who engage in terrorism.
It worked against Libya, leading Muammar Khadafi in the late 1990’s to stop sponsoring terrorism, turn over the Lockerbie bombers for trial, and pay compensation to British and French victims of Libyan-sponsored terrorism.
To build a containment regime against terrorism emanating from the Middle East, a date for America’s departure from Iraq must be set.
No doubt special circumstances accompanied that vote, but the effort which the country's most respected and powerful politician expended in order to gain the backing of Germany's parliament (as well as his coalition partners, the Greens) should be a warning to other Western governments not to leave their publics behind as they engage in the tough, multi-year campaign against the planners and executors of international terrorism.
But they are certain to resurface and grow as memories of September 11 th attacks fade and the effort to stamp out terrorism encounters new difficulties, setbacks and dilemmas and possibly requires risky military operations elsewhere.
If they wish to stay the course in the struggle against international terrorism, European leaders must take a leaf or two from Blair's book.
After all, only the ingrained habit of playing second fiddle to the US prevents EU members from clearly and loudly distancing themselves from Israel's repressive interferences on the West Bank and Gaza, even though such a stance would help strengthen the commitment of Arab states to the coalition against terrorism as well as provide a useful shove to American diplomacy.
There is little except national inertia, complacency and opportunism that stands in the way of beginning to formulate and implement a distinct EU policy to bolster the coalition against terrorism.
They deserve a better hearing now that retaining the solidarity of their citizens has become an essential condition for European governments to maintain solidarity with America for the long struggle against international terrorism that lies ahead.
These two phrases, he argues, allow the government to expand the definition of terrorism to include groups that were not involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and that may not even have existed when those attacks took place.
Chaos, a resurgence of terrorism, the rise of radical Islamism, and massive waves of immigration towards Europe are just a few of the potential threats to the European Union that are now being contemplated.
But international terrorism kills about 400 people in total each year.
Panic about terrorism and climate change doesn’t blind us entirely to other problems facing the planet, but our fear does distort the lens through which we see the big picture.
It’s too easy for politicians to throw more money at problems like terrorism, when some nations may already spend too much on security measures that merely shift attacks around.
Maybe there are smarter ways to combat terrorism than expensive wars and ever more homeland security.
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