What is it about?
This article categorizes six countries (US,UK, Australia, Canada, Russia and China) in line with their designated terrorist organisation lists. It might be an useful source, if you are considering to identify your country within these global counter-terror actor types.
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Why is it important?
This study is as a tentative first attempt at categorizing global counterterror actor types, as the categories have been framed based on the evidence available from only six countries. If and when the lists of further countries become available, it may be that other countries fit directly into the categories outlined here. But it may also be that the categories, and the criteria used to define them, will need alteration, and perhaps it will be necessary to add new categories. So further work is likely to build on the groundwork laid down in this article, rather than supplant it.
Perspectives
This article is an initial work understanding decision policy patterns of countries about proscribing terrorist organisations. The banned terrorist organisation lists are clear evidences how perception of countries are shaped towards the asymmetrical threats. If each countries designation pattern can be formulated by relying on these lists, achieving global endorsement against terrorism will be much easier for the world peace.
Dr Ethem Ilbiz
University of South Wales
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This page is a summary of: Trendsetters, Trend Followers, and Individual Players: Obtaining Global Counterterror Actor Types from Proscribed Terror Lists, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, November 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/1057610x.2014.974400.
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