Concept information
Preferred term
counterterrorism
Definition
- Counterterrorism is the use of personnel and resources to preempt, disrupt, or destroy capabilities of terrorists and their support networks. Counterterrorism is inherently an offensive, as opposed to defensive, approach to the threat, involving diplomacy, intelligence operations, law enforcement, military operations, and counterterrorism training. [Source: Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Counterterrorism]
Narrower concepts
- 9/11 Commission
- airport security
- Central Intelligence Agency
- criminal prosecution of terrorists
- decommissioning in Northern Ireland
- Department of Justice
- extraordinary rendition
- FBI
- Force 17
- force protection conditions
- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
- forensic science and terrorism
- grenzschutzgruppe 9
- Guantanamo Bay
- homeland security
- intelligence gathering
- international relations and terrorism
- interrogation techniques
- law and terrorism
- local response to chemical and biological terrorism
- Mossad
- National Security Agency
- National Security Council
- no-fly lists
- Operation Eagle Claw
- Patriot Act
- rehabilitation of terrorists
- rewards for justice
- Sayeret Matkal
- securitization after terror
- special air service regiment
- special operations wing
- torture debate
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/counterterrorism
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