Global Terrorism: A Polymorphous Phenomenon

• Autores: Fernando Reinares Nestares
• Localización: Análisis del Real Instituto Elcano ( ARI ), ISSN-e 1696-3466, Nº. 65, 2009
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Seven and a half years after the 11 September attacks in the US, the current web of global terrorism includes a reconstituted al-Qaeda, the territorial extensions it has managed to establish, a heterogeneous set of affiliated groups and organisations, and finally an indefinite number of self-constituted and spontaneously formed independent local cells. It would be a mistake to confuse the latter part for the whole, implying that global terrorism today is an amorphous phenomenon, when in fact it is polymorphous. The nature of the global terrorist threat for a given country or region of the world depends precisely on how these different components eventually combine.