Dozens of mourning people captured during civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks victims. Western Europe, France, Paris, place de la République, November 15, 2015. CC BY-SA 4.0 Mstyslav Chernov

The Evolution of the European Union’s Counter-Terrorism Policy: A Response to 9/11

By Shreya Sinha

Introduction

Terrorism
has emerged as one of the most widely recognizable and visible threats to a
nation’s security, especially after the 9/11 attacks on the United States of
America. Being a multidimensional problem, terrorism is dealt by many actors,
which further makes securitization at the international level complicated.
Since the international community remains divided over a universally accepted
definition of terrorism, even the United Nations does not recognize an...