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The other War on Terror revealed: global governmentality and the Financial Action Task Force's campaign against terrorist financing
Abstract. Despite initial fanfare surrounding its launch in the White House Rose Garden, the
War on Terrorist Finances (WOTF) has thus far languished as a sideshow, in the shadows of
military campaigns against terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq. This neglect is unfortunate, for
the WOTF reflects the other multilateral cooperative dimension of the US-led ‘war on terror’,
quite contrary to conventional sweeping accusations of American unilateralism. Yet the
existing academic literature has been confined mostly to niche specialist journals dedicated to
technical, legalistic and financial regulatory aspects of the WOTF. Using the Financial Action
Task Force (FATF) as a case study, this article seeks to steer discussions on the WOTF onto
a broader theoretical IR perspective. Building upon emerging academic works that extend
Foucauldian ideas of governmentality to the global level, we examine the interwoven
overlapping national, regional and global regulatory practices emerging against terrorist
financing, and the implications for notions of government, regulation and sovereignty
The vulnerability of public spaces: challenges for UK hospitals under the 'new' terrorist threat
This article considers the challenges for hospitals in the United Kingdom that arise from the threats of mass-casualty terrorism. Whilst much has been written about the role of health care as a rescuer in terrorist attacks and other mass-casualty crises, little has been written about health care as a victim within a mass-emergency setting. Yet, health care is a key component of any nation's contingency planning and an erosion of its capabilities would have a significant impact on the generation of a wider crisis following a mass-casualty event. This article seeks to highlight the nature of the challenges facing elements of UK health care, with a focus on hospitals both as essential contingency responders under the United Kingdom's civil contingencies legislation and as potential victims of terrorism. It seeks to explore the potential gaps that exist between the task demands facing hospitals and the vulnerabilities that exist within them
Framing the UK’s counter-terrorism policy within the context of a wicked problem
Terrorist attacks can be seen as the ultimate wicked problem. After 9/11, terrorists moved
from so-called ‘spectacular’ events to relatively low-intensity attacks against individuals and
groups. The emergence of what has become known as the ‘home-grown’ terrorist has added a
further dimension to the ‘wicked’ nature of the problem. This paper considers the UK’s
CONTEST and PREVENT strategies as a policy response to the threats from terrorism
and the impact that the policies themselves can have on the radicalization of individuals.
The author highlights some of the limitations of the PREVENT strand of the overall
strategy and the constraints that are imposed on government policies by failing to take a
holistic perspective on the nature of the problem
Activismo ciudadano y acontecimientos políticos en la transformación de la esfera pública digital en españa: del sms ¡pásalo! a Podemos
This paper discusses digital communication, activism and political system in Spain from a
critical-historical perspective. The results of combined empirical and analytical research
indicate that a critical digital public sphere emerged in 2004 affecting the evolution of
the political sphere to this day. Traditional parties had a slow and instrumental approach
to the digital realm. Conversely, cyber-activism unfolded new options of political action,
both in the short and long term, transforming the bipartisan system.El artículo aborda la comunicación digital, el activismo y el sistema político en España desde
una perspectiva crítica-histórica. Los resultados de una investigación empírica y analítica
indican que en 2004 surgió una esfera pública digital crítica que afectó la evolución de
la esfera política hasta hoy. Los partidos tradicionales se acercaron al entorno digital de
manera lenta e instrumental. En cambio, el ciberactivismo abrió nuevas opciones de acción
política, a corto y largo plazo, transformando el sistema bipartidista
Understanding Terrorist Network Topologies and Their Resilience Against Disruption
This article investigates the structural position of covert (terrorist or criminal) networks. Using the secrecy versus information tradeoff characterization of covert networks it is shown that their network structures are generally not small-worlds, in contradistinction to many overt social networks. This finding is backed by empirical evidence concerning Jemaah Islamiyah's Bali bombing and a heroin distribution network in New York. The importance of this finding lies in the strength such a topology provides. Disruption and attack by counterterrorist agencies often focuses on the isolation and capture of highly connected individuals. The remarkable result is that these covert networks are well suited against such targeted attacks as shown by the resilience properties of secrecy versus information balanced networks. This provides an explanation of the survival of global terrorist networks and food for thought on counterterrorism strategy policy.terror networks;terrorist cells;network structure;counterterrorism
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