Terrorism / counterterrorism
From 20th Century troubles to 21st Century international terrorism: identity, securitization, and British counterterrorism from 1968 to 2011
... of terrorism makes identifications of future success over terrorism or a use of security measures that are not constituted by the discursive construction of “terrorist” others elusive, if not ...behaviour. ...
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Heterogeneity across Terrorism Contexts and Actors: Improving the Evidence Base Supporting Counterterrorism Strategy.
... Moreover, counterterrorism strategies targeting women at risk of involvement in jihadism-inspired terrorism should be developed with attention to the current messaging around acceptance, recruitment, and ...
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Rethinking Targeted Killing Policy: Reducing Uncertainty, Protecting Civilians from the Ravages of both Terrorism and Counterterrorism
... fully assess the anticipated collateral damage, necessitates a careful examination of the intelligence information concerning risk assess- ments. There are several challenges concerning precaution assess- ments in the ...
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From terrorism to ‘radicalization’ to ‘extremism’: counterterrorism imperative or loss of focus?
... towards terrorism much earlier in a linear way, prompting the Institute for Policy Research and Development to argue that if there is no ‘typical pathway to violent extremism’ then the ‘scope of risk-assessment is ...
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The Effectiveness of International Law: Torture and Counterterrorism
... Another set of consequences stems from the inefficiency of torture as a tool to combat terrorism. One consequence is the torture of innocent peo- ple due to the overzealousness of torture programs to find ...
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF KENYA’S COUNTERTERRORISM MEASURES SINCE 1998.
... or terrorism for ...counter terrorism measures put in place to respond to these ...counter terrorism measures, the researcher utilized elements of interpretive and critical designs, only to the ...
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Kenya and the Global War on Terror: Neglecting History and Geopolitics in Approaches to Counterterrorism (pp. 24-34)
... of terrorism must also be critically ...international terrorism threat in Kenya is based on ...of terrorism in ...past terrorism, these proxies often have specific goals and use the brand of ...
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An optimization based framework for modeling counterterrorism strategies
... Following Rapoport (2004), the history of modern terrorism can be subdivided into four groups. The first wave consisted of the anarchists, who formed in the 1880s. They were followed by the anticolonialists ...
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Interrogating Britain in Yemen: humanitarianism & counterterrorism in the (inter)national interest?
... The purpose of this thesis is to provide a deeper understanding of the British government’s discursive and practical involvement in the Saudi-led coalition’s ‘Operation Restoring Hope’, in Yemen. To do so, it pursues ...
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Military aid, direct intervention and counterterrorism
... We assume that direct intervention and foreign effort interact to determine the re- sources available to the terrorists. We use a technology for this interaction which allows for different levels of substitution between ...
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The Status Quo Bias and Counterterrorism Detention
... See, e.g., M. Cherif Bassiouni, Institutionalization of Torture Under the Bush Administration, 37 C ASE W. R ES . J. I NT ’ L L. 389, 424 (2006) (“[E]ach person tortured, as well as his/her family, are likely to become ...
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Contending cultures of counterterrorism: transatlantic divergence or convergence?
... Strategic culture remains the biggest challenge to transatlantic convergence on counter- terrorism. Security doctrines are matters of fashion, but strategic culture is much more firmly embedded. In the Spring and ...
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(Counter-) Terrorism as Performance
... initiated counterterrorism activi- ties staged by official authorities that changes society in the long run, often in a much more profound fashion than the act of per- ceived terrorism is able to ...
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Counterterrorism Handbook (2002) CRC Press pdf
... Moluccans are people from islands popularly called the Spice Islands in what is now the country of Indonesia, but which at one time was a possession of The Netherlands and part of the Dutch East Indies. In the war for ...
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Country Report on Counterterrorism: United States of America
... (defining terrorism for the purpose of the State Department’s annual report to the Speaker of the House and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations as “premeditated, politically motivated violence per petrated ...
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Belgium and Counterterrorism Policy in the Jihadi Era (1986-2007). Egmont Paper, no. 15, September 2007
... of terrorism as well, albeit this aspect is considered to be of lesser importance in the overall effort, since the sums involved in recent terrorist attacks are of modest ...of counterterrorism falls under ...
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Global counterterrorism forum: The politics of counterterrorism & compliance
... Global Counterterrorism Forum will only become more important in the years ...Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF), of which the Netherlands is currently co-chair with Morocco (Dutch Government, ...
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How have the US administrations since 9/11 discursively legitimised violent counterterrorism and what effects has its practice had in Yemen?
... US counterterrorism has tended to increase the incidence of terrorism and the suffering of civilian ...of terrorism, overcoming the threat of terrorism and defeating non-state terrorist ...
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The True Meaning of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism
... what terrorism is, “the term terrorism has become so widely used in so many contexts as to become almost meaningless” ...term terrorism is currently being employed across the world in a number of ...
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Security sector reforms and their implication in fighting against terrorism in Kenya (1998-2015)
... The provision of aid was and still remains partly driven by the perceived threat of terrorism to the country. However, this has not brought more change than if it could have focused on the abilities of the Kenyan ...
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