Glees, A., and Richards, J., “International terrorism: the neglected domestic dimension”, in N. Tzifakis (ed), International Politics in Times of Change (Heidelberg: Springer, 2012), 299-319. ISBN: 978-3-642-21954-2.
International Politics in Times of Change is a Centre for European Studies publication, which presents a collection of essays on the manifold issues arising from the shifts in global power balances we are seeing at the beginning of the 21st Century. As China, India, Brazil and other emerging economic and political powers start to assert their place in the world, and major regions such as the Middle East undergo fundamental transformation, we are truly experiencing, as the book’s editor Nikolaos Tzifakis of the Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy describes it, “an international system in motion”.
In their chapter, Professor Anthony Glees and Dr Julian Richards evaluate the twin-track strategy within best-practice counter-terrorism policy that couples domestic with external security issues. In particular, the assertion is challenged that a renewed and developed focus on the link between domestic communities in the UK and international terrorist ideologies can lead to dangerous and sinister manifestations of a “national security state”. A counter-argument is presented that such a linkage is necessarily part-and-parcel of confronting contemporary terrorist threats, and will be an essential component of counter-terrorism policy in the West for the foreseeable future.
Read more about the book on the Springer website.
Anthony Glees is Professor of Politics at Buckingham and directs the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies (BUCSIS). Julian Richards is co-founder of BUCSIS and Lecturer in Security Studies.
