The UN and Counter-Terrorism

This book traces the evolution of the UN Security Council's actions against terrorism and extremism.

Alice Martini is Associate Professor in International Security Studies, Comillas Pontifical University, Spain. She is co-convenor of the Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group (BISA).

Introduction: the Council's fight against international terrorism 1. A constructivist theory of international terrorism 2. The UN and international terrorism. A genealogy 3. The emergence of the dispositif of international terrorism 4. The consolidation of the dispositif: writing the Self and the Other 5. Broadening the dispositif to radicalisation and extremism 6. Where consensus was not reached Conclusion. The long evolution of global counter-terrorism