Introduction

Kent  Roach

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139003537.001

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012

Kent Roach

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The Post-9/11 Fallout

Terrorism was not invented with the September 11, 2001 (9/11), terrorist attacks on the United States. Nevertheless, the coordinated attacks that killed almost 3,000 people were unprecedented as a single act of terrorism. So, too, was the global response to those events. Although individual countries had panicked and reacted to terrorism with repressive and ineffective laws and measures before, the response to 9/11 was an unprecedented global phenomenon. 9/11 produced a horrible natural experiment that allows us to compare how international institutions and different countries responded. Some reacted to 9/11 in novel and disturbing ways; others did very little to respond. All countries responded in a manner that reflected their own particular histories and legal, political, and social cultures.

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Information: The 9/11 Effect
Comparative Counter-Terrorism
, pp. 1 - 20

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003537.001 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2011

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