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During the first decade of the 21st century, as long as national and international security is concerned, terrorism remains a major issue. The events of September 11th 2001 in the USA, March 11th 2004 in Madrid, July 7th 2005 in London and most recently July 18th 2012 in Burgas, Bulgaria, indicate, or actually prove, that the distribution and analysis of ...
... objectives in mind, they may be prepared to accept some fairly serious compromises. I would argue that the international community must leverage this opportunity to bolster the positive developments in Iran. What is, in your opinion, the face of modern terrorism? Do we see a new spiral of global terrorist activity in the context of the recent Islamic attack on the Kenyan shopping centre? Israel views Iran as its enemy, and is particularly concerned by Iran’s nuclear program. Although Rouhani announced ...
... offers a similar though not identical model. However, it is important not to simply assume the primacy of ideology (religious or otherwise) in moving an individual toward the embrace of violence. In my own research on “homegrown” jihadist terrorism in the West, I’ve found that ideology is sometimes the central factor in an individual’s radicalization, while sometimes another factor predominates. I think ideas are an extremely important drive of terrorist violence, but they ...
... reaction to a potential loss of the country to Islamists, and the strategy essentially is to defeat the initial probes by the Islamists, and then to see what happens after that. I would say that it is a learning strategy, and it is rather a counter-terrorism one at this stage. But I think we might have to wait and see what we would hear from the French about what their strategy actually is. There is a lot of speculation regarding the recent Algeria hostage crisis. And it is hard to make sense of ...
... for political purposes. And the new weapons are generally used for political purposes. So in this sense they still are “Clausewitzian weapons”, but simply weapons of a different nature. For example, it is interesting how counterinsurgencies and terrorism have developed. People tend to think of these both as new forms of war. But indeed, what do the terrorist use their weapons for, be they planes filled with innocent people or IEDs (improvised explosive device)? They are still used for political ...
Terrorism defeats terrorism Egypt can be considered the homeland of radical Islamism – Hasan al-Banna, Seyid Khutb, Farag & ors were born and flourished namely in the Land of the Pharaohs. Egyptian know-how in countering terrorism is rightfully seen ...
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