THE UNITED STATES VS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY:  ARE THEIR TWO APPROACHES TOWARDS THE ERADICTION OF  TERRORISM COMPATIBLE?

Noëlle QUÉNIVET

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THE UNITED STATES VS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: ARE THEIR TWO APPROACHES TOWARDS THE ERADICTION OF TERRORISM COMPATIBLE?

Authors:

Noëlle QUÉNIVET

Publisher:

T.C Dışişleri Bakanlığı

Journal:

PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs 2002 Vol.7 Issue 4, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

11/2002

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000586606

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

2651-3315

pISSN:

1300-8641

Abstract:

 

Since September 11 much attention has been devoted to the notion of ‘terrorism’. By reading  the press, watching television, one has the impression that, all of a sudden, the world has  discovered terrorism and has been so shocked by its effects that the “international  community” cannot tolerate acts of terrorism. In quasi-unanimity, the world leaders  expressed their condolences to the American population. “The international community has  not seen such a coalition since the struggle against slavery and the defeat of fascism.”1 The  unanimity behind this condemnation, however, seems to corrode with time passing by. There  certainly is an increasing divergence of opinions about responding to terrorism. “Is the  fracture line over globalisation actually a division not between the West and the Rest but  between the United States and the Rest?”2 Some argue that it is the result of the United States  policy as a leader of this fight against terrorism, that the United States, by its behaviour, has  created a front against the “war on terrorism”. This paper shows that it may be possible to  reconcile the different approaches if the international community agrees on the definition of  terrorism and on the means to suppress it and if the United States does not blatantly act  against the interests and wishes of the international community. It is argued that, in the fight  against international terrorism, States need to stand united if they wish their efforts to be  fruitful and international terrorism to be eradicated.

Article Details

THE UNITED STATES VS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: ARE THEIR TWO APPROACHES TOWARDS THE ERADICTION OF TERRORISM COMPATIBLE?

Authors: Noëlle QUÉNIVET

Publisher: T.C Dışişleri Bakanlığı

Journal: PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs 2002 Vol.7 Issue 4, pp.0-0

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 11/2002

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000586606

Frequency: Bi-Annual

eISSN: 2651-3315

pISSN: 1300-8641

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Authors:

Noëlle QUÉNIVET

Publisher:

T.C Dışişleri Bakanlığı

Journal:

PERCEPTIONS: Journal of International Affairs 2002 Vol.7 Issue 4, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

11/2002

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000586606

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

2651-3315

pISSN:

1300-8641