RT Article
T1 International Organisations and Terrorism: Multilateral Antiterrorism Efforts, 1960–1990
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 35
IS 2
SP 433
OP 451
A1 Blumenau, Bernhard 1984-
A1 Müller, Johannes
A2 Müller, Johannes
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1839407832
AB This article examines early antiterrorism negotiations within international organisations (IOs) and their outcomes. It assesses how international cooperation emerged in specialised, regional, and global IOs and provides a long-term overview from the 1960s until the late 1980s. Drawing on primary sources and scholarly literature, this article identifies the patterns, trends, and key characteristics of the successfully adopted measures. It demonstrates that early multilateral antiterrorism efforts faced several obstacles (sovereignty, national interests, mistrust, and geopolitics), and, therefore, international negotiations fared better when following a piecemeal approach within specialised or regional organisations, where the focus could be on specific aspects of terrorism (e.g., hostage-takings). A key characteristic of the successfully adopted antiterrorism instruments was the aut dedere aut iudicare principle, which allowed states to maintain perceptions of sovereignty by either extraditing or trying a suspect. The antiterrorism efforts examined here were mostly preventative in design and worked to discourage future terrorists by ensuring that safe havens were closed and that perpetrators faced justice. The shift to suicide terrorism in the 1990s would instead require new international antiterrorism efforts to focus on pre-emptive strategies, depriving terrorists of the means to carry out attacks. The roots of these measures were laid in the 1980s.
K1 United Nations
K1 antiterrorism
K1 multilateral cooperation
K1 Terrorism
K1 International organisations
DO 10.1080/09546553.2021.1938002