Bridging the transatlantic counterterrorism gap

Shapiro, Jeremy; Byman, Daniel

doi:10.1162/wash.2006.29.4.33

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“…With the exception of the few models developed to account for the threat derived from non-military factors such as intentions, credibility (Fearon, 1995;Schelling, 1960;Schelling and Affairs, 1966;Walt, 1985) or misperception (Jervis, 1976), traditional theoretical approaches within International Relations usually focus on the degree and level of the threat in order to understand counterterrorism preferences. Shapiro and Byman (2006), for instance, rely on the geographical location of the threat and on state capabilities. Accordingly, the USA's decision to prioritize a military reaction to terrorism -as opposed to a criminal one -would be the consequence of the absence of 'Islamist terrorism' within its national borders.…”

Section: From An Objective Threat To a Constructed One? How Perceptiomentioning

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Islamization of criminal behaviour: The path to terrorism? Terrorist threat and crime in French counterterrorism policy-formulation

D’Amato

2019

European Journal of Criminology

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Several studies have covered wide-ranging features of terrorist groups and organization from both a state-centric and a strictly group analysis perspective. Rather than offering insights to determine the ‘nature’ of these forms of violence, this article focuses on states’ perception and process of construction of terrorism based on allegations of being criminals, religious extremists or psychologically disturbed people. It does so by reconstructing the determinants of the way French policy-makers have understood, communicated and approached the terrorist enemy since the 9/11 attacks. More than 150 documents, including parliamentary debates and strategic documents, have been analysed so as to understand the evolution of the image of the threat, its connection to crime and the political implications of this representation.

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Section: From An Objective Threat To a Constructed One? How Perceptiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Islamization of criminal behaviour: The path to terrorism? Terrorist threat and crime in French counterterrorism policy-formulation

D’Amato

2019

European Journal of Criminology

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“…As long as the threat to the United States has come from transnational Islamists, not its Muslim minority, 'war' has remained a rhetorical option -even if unwise. For European authorities, the threats to whom have lain among liminal Muslim populations, 'war' has seemed less rhetorically apposite (Shapiro and Byman, 2006).…”

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Talking about terror: Counterterrorist campaigns and the logic of representation

Chowdhury

Krebs

2010

European Journal of International Relations

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Counterterrorist state forces and terrorist insurgents compete to control not only territory and populations but language.The success of counterterrorism, therefore, hinges crucially on representational practices. Defeating terrorism in the long run requires both undermining the legitimacy of political violence and its purveyors and opening space for the pursuit of a less violent but still legitimate politics, and these are fundamentally rhetorical projects. Yet the literature has not shed much light on either the range of conceivable counterterrorist representational strategies or on states’ particular representational choices.This article presents and illustrates a typology of counterterrorist representational strategies. It argues that state leaders should ideally delegitimize the extremists’ means while politicizing some of their aspirations. Leaders often do not pursue this rhetorical path, however, due to the constraints imposed by existing understandings of terrorist organizations and especially by foundational discourses. These arguments are explored empirically through studies of the Indian, Spanish, and Turkish counterterrorist campaigns. The article concludes by extending the framework to clarify why the militarized rhetoric of the so-called ‘War on Terror’ is counterproductive.

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“…As a result, Europe has not prioritised terrorism in the same way as the US and has tended to look at inter‐state conflict, energy vulnerability and climate change as its foremost sources of concern. Even in relation to terrorism, Jeremy Shapiro and Daniel Byman observe that ‘the United States and Europe disagree on ... the precise nature of the terrorist threat, the best methods for managing this threat, and the root causes of terrorism’ (Shapiro and Byman 2006, 34).…”

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Securing the Homelands: Transatlantic Co-Operation after Bush

Rees¹

2009

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Since 9/11, internal security co-operation has grown into a major feature of transatlantic relations. This article seeks to appraise both the achievements of the Bush administration in this field and the prospects for President Obama's period of office. Homeland security has been a new and difficult area of co-operation to foster, yet both sides of the Atlantic have come to recognise their shared interests in working together. The article cautions those European policy-makers who are hoping for a major change in homeland security co-operation under the new president. It is likely that the policies of the new administration will be characterised more by continuity than by change.

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Bridging the transatlantic counterterrorism gap

Cited by 15 publications

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Islamization of criminal behaviour: The path to terrorism? Terrorist threat and crime in French counterterrorism policy-formulation

Islamization of criminal behaviour: The path to terrorism? Terrorist threat and crime in French counterterrorism policy-formulation

Talking about terror: Counterterrorist campaigns and the logic of representation

Securing the Homelands: Transatlantic Co-Operation after Bush

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