Fighting terrorism is a complex task, not limited to military options. It also concerns State-building, nationalism and inclusive sustainable development. The roots of underlying conflicts were already laid during colonialism, the slave trade, plundering of resources and arbitrary border...

This work studies the dynamics of international, multilateral, legal negotiations. It seeks to understand how the participants in a multilateral negotiation on a new international law instrument actually behave and why they do so. To this end, it provides a rich historical narrative of the...

Cyber space is being used as a chosen platform for conveying the messages of terrorism since the inception of easy communication methods through various cyber pockets. In India, cyber space had been used in the recent major terror attacks in 2009 and 8. The striking factor here is, the Indian...

A decade after 9/11, the international field of counter-terrorism is now thick with law. But that does not mean that the law is coherent or legitimate. The birth of new rules, institutions and processes can be anarchic. New norms overlay older, pre-existing legal forms and regimes, generating...

In the wake of the US Supreme Court’s recent decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project there has been much discussion about the potentially chilling effect that US material support laws may have on the provision of humanitarian assistance in both disaster and war zones. This essay aims to...

There has been considerable ambivalence in the response of the international community and different national governments towards the problem of how to respond to individual terrorist acts and sustained campaigns of terrorist violence. Responses vacillate between a desire to punish and deter...

In the course of history a large number of politicians has been assassinated. A rational choice analysis is used to distinguish the expected marginal benefits of killing, and the marginal cost of attacking a politician. The comparative analysis of various equilibria helps us to gain insights...

This paper assesses the law in the books versus law in action capacities of a state to prevent and combat terrorism financing. The methodology used combines actual cases with legal analysis of compliance with international legal rules and standards ratified by a state. A case study is focused on...

The thesis of this article is that the unique nature of terrorist crime requires a tweaking of the entrapment rules. The entrapment defense is our legal system's primary mechanism for regulating government sting operations. I argue that sting operations and surveillance are conceptually distinct...

Terrorism has been identified as the greatest menace facing the mankind in the 21st century. India has officially identified terrorism as one of the most critical challenges that faces it in the post Iraq war world. The driving force in the global politics since 2/11 is also nothing but...