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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Stuart Croft
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Abstract

The ‘war on terror’– perhaps how it has led to an ‘age of terror’– has come to dominate many aspects of international relations and indeed of relations between the state and the citizen since the ‘defining moment’ of the 2001 attacks. This special issue examines whether there is an ‘age of terror’, and if so, how that ‘age of terror’ has led to new approaches and to new thinking on the part of Western states and establishments by drawing on the UK's experience in Northern Ireland, the nature of collaboration on counter-terrorism across the European Union and in thinking about the implications of terrorism for strategy. State approaches are critiqued, and alternatives suggested, in thinking about the relationship between human rights and the ‘war on terror’, and indeed in reconceptualizing the study of terrorism. In the final articles of this issue alternative and non-state critiques, approaches and analyses are developed.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , 2007 , pp. 267 - 271
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 2007

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12 Particular thanks to Wyn Rees, who acted as a very insightful discussant on the papers at the workshop, and to the editors and publishers of Government and Opposition who provided funds to support that workshop.Google Scholar