War on Terror

War on Terror

The war on terror, according to Mathieu Deflem and Stephen Chicoine (1) “refers to a series of counterterrorism measures authorized and enacted by the U.S. government following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Occasionally also capitalized as War on Terror and sometimes referred to as the War on Terrorism and the Global War on Terror (GLOT), the expression is sometimes used and understood more generally to refer to a relatively broad range of counterterrorism measures and has sometimes also been adopted, in various meanings, by non-U.S. governments and agencies. In its origins, however, the term is distinctly tied to certain counterterrorism policies that began during the Presidency of George W. Bush and that since then have been continued, albeit it in occasionally altered form, following the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. The war on terror is only one, albeit an extremely important, component in the broader reality of counterterrorism.”

Notes

1. Deflem, Mathieu and Stephen Chicoine. 2013. “War on Terror.” Pp. 987-990 in Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime, Second Edition, edited by Lawrence M. Salinger. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

See also

Further Reading

  • Deflem, Mathieu. 2001. “International Police Cooperation in Northern America.” Pp. 71-98 in International Police Cooperation: A World Perspective, edited by Daniel J. Koenig and Dilip K. Das. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Marenin, Otwin. 2001. “United States International Policing Activities: An Overview.” Pp. 297-322 in International Police Cooperation: A World Perspective, edited by Daniel J. Koenig and Dilip K. Das. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • McDonald, William F., ed. 1997. Crime and Law Enforcement in the Global Village. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Publishing.
  • Nadelmann, Ethan A. 1993. Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of U.S. Criminal Law Enforcement. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
  • Bayer, Michael D. The Blue Planet: Informal International Police Networks and National Intelligence. Washington, DC: NDIC Press, 2010.
  • Deflem, Mathieu. The Policing of Terrorism: Organizational and Global Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2010.
  • Heymann, Philip B. Terrorism, Freedom, and Security: Winning Without War. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
  • Hodges, Adam. The “War on Terror” Narrative: Discourse and Intertextuality in the Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Pious, Richard M. The War on Terrorism and the Rule of Law. Los Angeles: Roxbury, 2006.

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