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Countering Terrorism-From Wigged Judges To Helmeted Soldiers? Legal Perspectives On America’S Counter-Terrorism Responses, Jackson N. Maogoto

Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto

This Article aims to evaluate the international legal perspectives attendant to U.S. counter-terrorism measures and policy and the attendant strictures and implications. Part II commences by grappling with the uneasy relationship that legal and political complexities have foisted on the UN’s ability to address terrorism and the difficult issue of the definition of terrorism. Within the context of this part, the Article also addresses the two dominant counter-terrorism paradigms—law enforcement and conflict management. Part III moves on to evaluate the law enforcement paradigm which treats terrorism as a crime engaging domestic law enforcement. The part offers a discussion of the …