Название: Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century. International Perspectives
Автор: James J.F. Forest
Издательство: Praeger Publishers
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 2016
Размер: 10 Mb
Язык: English

The attacks of September 11, 2001, inaugurated a new global era of counterterrorism policy and activity, led by the United States. Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century analyzes the most significant dimensions of combating terrorism, including considerations of strategic and tactical issues (hard power, soft power, and counterintelligence); the need to thwart sources and facilitators (weak governments, ill-conceived foreign policy, and trafficking in drugs, guns, and humans); and the incorporation of lessons learned thus far from combating terrorism around the globe.

Since the dawn of the new millennium, combating terrorism has become a primary focus of security professionals throughout the world. The attacks of September 11, 2001, inaugurated a new global era of counterterrorism policy and activity, led by the United States, while many countries - from Algeria and Spain to Sri Lanka and Indonesia - have redoubled their efforts to combat their own indigenous terrorism threats. In the Unites States, the counterterrorism goals identified in the National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (2006) can only be achieved through significant multinational cooperation. These goals are to advance effective democracies as the long-term antidote to the ideologies of terrorism; to prevent attacks by terrorist networks; to deny terrorists the support and sanctuary of rogue states; to deny terrorists control of any nation they would use as a base and launching pad for terror; and to lay the foundations and build the institutions and structures we need to carry the fight forward against terror and help ensure our ultimate success.

At this point in the development of the global counterterrorism efforts, it is particularly important to pause for reflection on a number of critical questions.

What do we know about effectively countering terrorism?
What are the characteristics of successful or unsuccessful counterterrorism campaigns?
What do we need to learn in order to do this better?

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