Was the Patriot Act the right way to go? In my opinion, the time was right for the Patriot Act. I wasn’t very old back then when the tragedy of 9/11 happened, but I do know what people think of when a crisis happens. People needed a sense of security;...

In the course of the recent terrorist attacks in Europe and in the United States, the discourse over the role of terrorism shifted in the direct that the immigration leads to the consequential terrorist attacks. In order to prevent these terrorist attacks on the political level, certain governments undertook the...

For states today that find themselves caught in fights with terrorist organizations, the tendency is to mirror the activities and movements of those organizations. This has proven itself to give the states an excellent chance to stay on top of what groups are doing. At the same time, there are...

The term “state-sponsored terrorism” is a controversial and problematic one. One of the reasons the term is so problematic is that different states view different actions as terrorism. One state may believe that funding a particular militaristic action is a legitimate course of action, while another state might see the...

The term terrorism is capable of igniting fear in those around the globe based on numerous factors and ideas regarding its actual meaning. Hoffman carefully establishes the multiple uses of this term as well as the difficulties that have been found when attempting to format an effective universal definition. The...