Strategies of Fighting Terror

Abstract

The article is part of a wider discussion on and the assessment of the global
terrorism threat since 2001. Terrorism considered the most dangerous and
urgent security threat of today. The text focuses on the three major
terrorist attacks in recent history: USA (2001), Madrid (2004) and London
(2005). The text examines whether terrorism still remains an indirect
strategy in the globalisation era. The author analyses the effects of previous
terrorist attacks in the assessment of terrorism by politicians, looking at the
impact of this assessment on further developments in international
relations, both on the regional and global level. The article studies the links
between the imminence of a terrorist threat and individual Western
countries' approaches to the Islamic world and immigrants coming from
this world. The author focuses on global terrorism threat assessment at the
theoretical level, introducing the main schools of thought and approaches.