CONTENTS
Introduction
Zdzisława Dacko-Pikiewicz
9
Henryk Raczkowski
11
Part 1
Understanding Contemporary Terrorism
and Counterterrorism – Selected Issues
Sebastian Wojciechowski
15
1.
What is terrorism? How should one define terrorism?
15
2.
What makes it difficult to define/describe terrorism?
Why are there so many definitions of terrorism and why
the international community has failed to work out
one universal definition?
17
3.
Why the universal definition of terrorism is necessary?
22
4.
What are the main reasons of terrorism?
What makes terrorism escalating?
28
5.
What is the crucial motivation of terrorists’ activity?
32
6.
What is the profile of a terrorist?
35
7.
What is the profile of a terrorist organization?
42
8.
What are main consequences of terrorism?
45
9.
What is the characteristic of modern terrorist attacks?
48
10.
How does the model of modern terrorism combating look like?
50
