Combating International Terrorism

The first part of this Article will scrutinize the characteristics and explanations of “international terrorism” given by different organizations and renowned scholars, and it will discuss the scopes of those definitions. The second part will further elaborate on the subject with the political deliberation of terrorist events, the criminalization of terrorism and the derogation from fundamental human rights in the absence of an actual state of emergency. The third part will analyze the acts of international organizations and the international community, and their scope in combating terrorism. The fourth part will consist of concluding observations.