Review article

Deconstructing the Myth of Global Terrorism: Trends in Contemporary Terrorism

Branimir Pađen orcid.org/0000-0001-7797-4784

Abstract

Following the attack on World Trade Center on September 11, 2011, the global perception of terrorism has gotten a whole new context. In the media and scientific representation, that has created a climate that terrorism is no longer focused on international boundaries and that it is now perceived as a global phenomenon, the biggest threat to world peace. It has become a faceless danger which does not choose its victims and threatens everyone everywhere. The author analyses the trends in contemporary terrorism by using data from the Global Terrorism Database and determines changes which occurred after the attack on September 11. Ultimately, the author concludes that global terrorism is just – a myth.

Keywords

terrorism; September 11; international terrorism; global terrorism; contemporary terrorism; Global Terrorism Database; trends in terrorism

Hrčak ID:

143307

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/143307

Publication date:

3.9.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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