Global Terrorism: Multilateral Responses to an Extraordinary Threat

This article, published in International Peace Academy Coping With Crisis Working Paper Series, examines the status and prospects of multilateral responses to global terrorism. It outlines what is known and perceived about the nature of the threat posed by contemporary international terrorism. It discusses current efforts directed at managing this...

Implementing the United Nations General Assembly’s Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in the Asia-Pacific

The Asia-Pacific, and Southeast Asia in particular, faces serious threats from terrorist groups that have demonstrated an ability to exploit the region’s geographical and institutional vulnerabilities, large areas insufficiently controlled by national governments, intra- and inter-state rivalries, local insurgencies, and a relative lack of formal multilateral security cooperation. This report...

“Renewing the U.S.-UN Partnership Against Terrorism”

This article, published in UNF Insights, argues that, “[i]n the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the [United States] succeeded in reaching out” to the United Nations, in particular the Security Council, “to help globalize the ‘war on terror,’” but that in recent years, U.S. attention has waned, letting “much of the...

"The UN-Led Multilateral Institutional Response to Jihadist Terrorism: Is a Global Counterterrorism Body Needed?"

This article, published in Journal of Conflict and Security Law, briefly outlines the current terrorist threat posed by militant Islamist radical terrorism and the complexity and evolving nature of the threat. The article summarizes the current capacity of multilateral institutions to contribute to the fight against terrorism. It concludes that...

Report on Standards and Best Practices for Improving States' Implementation of UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Mandates

This report provides an assessment of core counterterrorism standards and best practices. Using UN Security Council Resolution 1373 as its basis, the report identifies best practices in three broad areas related to the resolution: combating terrorist financing, improving legal practice and law enforcement, and enhancing territorial control....

Allied Against Terrorism

This report, published by the Century Foundation, takes a critical look at UN Security Council efforts to assume the leading role among international organizations involved in counterterrorism. It enumerates a series of structural changes that could strengthen Security Council–led efforts in the short term but argues that, over the long...