Debate continues as to the transformations in terrorism evidenced by the September 11 attacks and since that time. Some, including the former U.S. President, point to changes in the nature of terrorism and argue that September 11 constituted a wholly new form of terrorism that demanded a novel...

Because of the difficulties of distinguishing friend and foe, security and insecurity, or even war and peace, terrorism appears to be an endemic and endless risk. The embedded nature of the terrorist risk appears to demand the treatment of one's neighbour as potentially friend and foe. One of...

The plan of the chapter will involve consideration of terrorism as contrary to cosmopolitanism and then the assessment of counter-terrorism. It is not implied that both aspects are to be equated either in normative or practical terms. The errors of states must not to be endorsed or ignored, but...

This introductory chapter to this illuminating book offers a timely assessment of the development and proliferation of precursor crimes of terrorism, exploring the functions and implications of these new expanding offences in different jurisdictions. In response to new forms modes and sources of...