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"This paper aims at historicizing terrorism by focusing attention on how the current dominant discursive patterns, constituent elements of the 'global terrorism' dispositive, have come to existence. It brings to the fore the first robust international debate on terrorism which took place in the League of Nations following the Marseilles assassination (1934) and Shows its conspiratorial features, many of which are detectable in the discourse of terrorism among states after 9/11." (author's abstract)

"This paper considers terrorism as an extortion activity. It uses tools from the theory of extortion and from conflict theory to describe how terrorism works, why terrorism is a persistent phenomenon, why terrorism is a violent phenomenon, and how retaliation affects the outcome. The analysis highlights the importance of information aspects and discusses some aspects of the organizational design." (author's abstract)

Der Kampf gegen den internationalen Terrorismus ist seit über fünfzehn Jahren ein zentraler Fokus der europäischen Sicherheitspolitik. Dabei stellt sich jedoch die Frage, ob die Vielzahl an Sicherheitsmaßnahmen und -gesetzen, die auf verschiedenen politischen Ebenen verabschiedet wurden, den Standards der Effektivität und Verhältnismäßigkeit gerecht werden. Dieser Band bietet eine entsprechende kritische Bestandsaufnahme. Raphael Bossong gibt einen Überblick zu den strategischen Trends der EU-Antiterrorismuspolitik seit 2015, während Oldrich Bures die europäischen Maßnahmen zur Kontrolle sog. ausländischer Kämpfer evaluiert. Martin Kahl entwickelt eine grundsätzliche Kritik der Effektivität der EU-Terrorismusbekämpfung. Tim Krieger und Daniel Meierrieks kondensieren die wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Debatte zur Kosten- und Folgeabschätzung des Terrorismus. Anja Jacobi und Janina Kandt analysieren die transnationale Governance zur Eindämmung der Terrorismusfinanzierung. Mit Beiträgen vonDr. Raphael Bossong, Prof. Oldrich Bures, Dr. Martin Kahl, Prof. Tim Krieger, Dr. Daniel Meierrieks, Prof. Anja Jacobi, Janina Kandt

This contribution aims to give an overview on the state of the art of research on terrorism and gender in the field of Political Science and International Relations (IR). Contemporary analyses of terrorism have begun integrating gender aspects into their frameworks. This article supports the call for a much more coherent use of gender as an analytical category as this is beneficial for the analysis of ter-rorism in a threefold manner. First, gender as an analytical category in the study of terrorism exposes the gender blindness of the term terrorism; second, gender challenges the political myth of protection central to international politics, i.e. that states can legitimately fight wars to protect the vulnerable – vulgo women and children. Third, gender also challenges the myth of an intrinsic peacefulness/vulnerability of women. The paper closes with the plea to integrate a coherent historical dimension into a gendered analysis of terrorism in order to potentially achieve a more empirically attuned theoretical understanding of terrorism and political violence in current times.