No. 48: The Campaign Against Terrorism

No. 48: The Campaign Against Terrorism

Successes and Failures

Author(s): Alexandre Wilner
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 48
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2009

More than seven years after the attacks of 11 September 2001, terrorism remains a fundamental threat to international security. While the core structure of al-Qaida has been significantly weakened, the jihadist ideology it espouses has nonetheless spread around the globe. As a result, counterterrorism efforts need to combine a number of strategies that differentiate between global, regional, and homegrown terrorist threats.
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