| Abstrakt: |
This essay provides an American perspective on the Western approach to counter-terrorism. Beginning with a retrospective look at why the international response to terrorism in the I970s was so weak and confused, the study then focuses on the development of strategic policy objectives and the specific measures to achieve them. By putting pressure on states that supported terrorism and by applying the rule of law to terrorists to delegitimize them and portray them as criminals, some successes were achieved during the 1980s. The analysis then focuses on tactical measures, such as information exchange and target-hardening, and outlines some of the more recent successes in prosecuting international terrorists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
