Correction to: Fiona de Londras, The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-Terrorism

Abstract

The world has a problem with counter-terrorism. Since 2001, a transnational counter-terrorism order has emerged of such scale, scope, reach, and significance that the Secretary-General of the United Nations could describe it as ‘a comprehensive, multilateral counter-terrorism architecture at the global, regional and national levels’. This architecture is now firmly established as a seemingly immovable part of the global governance landscape, characterised by an institutional and normative sprawl that embeds it across a remarkable range of transnational activities. The attacks of 11 September 2001 acted as an accelerant for the development, institutionalisation, and hardening of transnational counter-terrorism in formal and informal international institutions. With a focus on norm setting, norm settlement, capacity building, and sanctions regimes, this transnational activity has had concrete domestic effects. In the seventeen years after 2001, 140 states adopted new counter-terrorism