Terrorism financing refers to activities that provides financing or financial support to individual terrorists or terrorist groups. A government that maintains a list of terrorist organizations normally will also pass laws to prevent money laundering being used to finance those organizations. Laws against money laundering...
Al-Qaeda is a term used by Islamic radicals to describe the terrorist organization to which they belong. The term is not used to describe a single group or even a combination of multiple groups. Al-Qaeda is made up of several main bases in Afghanistan, Islamic...
In the United Kingdom today, no single issue of public concern seems to be as widely and hotly debated as that of terrorism. When people hear of terrorist attacks, they react with horror and disgust (rightfully), however, little discussion ever revolves around whether terrorism can...
Introduction The perceived success and failure of civilian centric terrorist organisations has received substantial analytical attention within the context of the twenty-first century. A contestable notion amongst contemporary scholarship – and dissidents themselves within the international arena –, the question of defining the political medium...
Introduction With the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union, the fear that scientific and technological advances, combined with the increasing availability of chemical, radiological, and biological agents, and the revival of religious and political fanaticism in recent times, suggests...
The history of modern terrorism began with the French revolution and has evolved ever since. The most common causes or roots of terrorism include civilizations or culture clashes, globalization, religion, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. More personal or individual-based reasons for terrorism...
The War on Terror and Islamophobia American foreign policy bears an infamous reputation amongst world leaders for it’s imperialistic approach to world issues through heavy use of brute military power to enforce Western ideals of democracy. Such intervention has historically proven to generate more harm...
Woodrow Wilson once said, “This is the war to end all wars,”. World War I, sometimes referred to as The Great War, was thought to be the war that ends all wars. The two main sides were the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France, Russia, Japan,...
