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Terrorism and transatlantic relations : threats and challenges
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Details
- Creator
- edited by Klaus Larres and Tobias Hof
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2022]
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (272 pages)
- ISBNs
- 303083347X, 3030833461, 9783030833466, 9783030833480, 9783030833497, 9783030833473
- OCLC
- on1286687485, on1287135459
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- *** -- 2 The Transatlantic Alliance and Terrorism: Aligning Responses and Cooperation to Threats and Challenges -- Post-Caliphate ISIS: A Continuing International Terrorist Threat -- ISIS's Pioneering Use of Social Media -- Al-Qaeda Über Alles -- Conclusion -- 3 The Dynamics of Entangled Political Violence: From the Greensboro Massacre (1979) to the War on Terror (2001) -- Terrorism During the Cold War -- Terrorism in the Post-Cold War Era -- The Struggle for Political Legitimacy -- The Essence of the Nature of Terrorist Violence -- 4 The Rise of the Right: Terrorism in the U.S. and Europe -- Right-Wing Terrorism in the Postwar Period -- Reactionary Terrorism -- Millenarian Terrorism -- Right-Wing Terrorism and Transnationalism -- Right-Wing Terrorism Today -- What Is "New" About Today's Right-Wing Terrorisms? -- Conclusion -- 5 The Recalibration of Force in International Counterterrorism, 2010-2020 -- The Case of the United Kingdom -- Reform of International Counterterrorism in 2010 -- The Challenge Posed by Islamic State to UK Counterterrorism -- Balancing Clausewitz's Trinity via Technological `Silver Bullets' -- The Ongoing Problem of Projecting Other Forms of State Power to Enhance Governance -- The Principle of Substitution: Using Proxies to Achieve UK Counterterrorism Objectives -- Conclusion -- 6 Counterterrorism in Europe: Discord and Disorder -- Methodology -- European Exceptionalism -- Transatlantic Convergence -- Methodological Nationalism -- Conclusion -- 7 Difficult or Impossible? U.S.-China Cooperation, Counterterrorism, and Peaceful Co-existence from 9/11 to the Biden Administration -- The Deterioration of Relations with China under Obama and Trump -- War Scares, Tension Over Xinjiang, and a Lack of Imagination to Co-Exist
- The Biden Administration: Cooperation or Further Tension? -- U.S.-Chinese Counterterrorism Cooperation After 9/11 -- Counterterrorism Cooperation with China: The Obama and Trump Years -- Conclusion -- 8 It's Getting Harder to Do: Countering Terrorist Use of the Internet -- Internet Chat Rooms and Message Boards -- Social Media Platforms -- Cooperation with Law Enforcement -- Lessons from the Saudi Airman Terrorist Attack in 2019 in Pensacola Florida -- Internet Messaging Applications -- The Paris Attacks of November 2015 -- Calls for IMAs to Provide Encrypted Messages to Law Enforcement -- Exploiting Cybersecurity Weakness in IMAs -- Anonymous Websites -- Summary and Conclusion -- 9 Terrorist Exploitation Points in the International Financial System: Major Vulnerabilities in the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Framework. Avenues for Transatlantic Cooperation -- Background on International Consensus on AML/CFT -- Defining Terrorist Financing -- Distinction from Money Laundering -- Comparative Definitions of Terrorist Financing -- Trade-based Money Laundering ("TBML") -- Recommendations on Transatlantic Cooperation to Combat TBML -- Beneficial Ownership -- Recommendations on Transatlantic Cooperation to Improve Transparency in Beneficial Ownership -- Cryptocurrency -- Opportunities for Criminal and Terrorist Abuse of Cryptocurrencies Are Real -- U.S. Government Response to Cryptocurrency Risks -- The FATF Response to the Challenges of Cryptocurrency -- Recommendations for Transatlantic Cooperation Regarding Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies -- Conclusions -- 10 Transatlantic "Torture Taxis" and the Problem of Legal Accountability: The Case of North Carolina -- North Carolina's Role in Post-9/11 US Torture -- "Extraordinary Rendition": A Global Gulag -- RDI: Two Parallel Tracks for Rendition Aviation
- State and County Officials' Attitudes Toward Aero -- The Challenges-The Legal Framework Prohibiting Torture and Extraordinary Rendition -- International Legal Norms -- Domestic Law -- U.S. Courts and the State Secrets Privilege -- Non-US Courts and Accountability Jurisdiction -- Australia and the U.K Courts and Accountability Jurisdiction -- Implications for the United States and the State Secrets Privilege -- The NCCIT-A New Approach to Connecting the Local to the Global -- Conclusion -- 11 Concluding Remarks -- Index