Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics -
International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies,
Security, printed single-sided, grade: 1,0, Humboldt-University of
Berlin, language: English, abstract: "We will direct every resource
at our command to win the war against terrorists, every means of
diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law
enforcement, every financial influence. We will starve the
terrorists of funding, turn them against each other, rout them out
of their safe hiding places, and bring them to justice" (Cited in
Biersteker and Eckert 2008: 1). President George W. Bush, September
24, 2001 In the immediate aftermath of the attacks in the United
States on 11 September 2001 President W. Bush declared America's
"War on Terrorism" in which he assured to defeat terrorist
movements and their methods of funding that could be used to
support the acts of global terrorist (Biersteker and Eckert 2008;
1). The examination of broader terrorism studies literature shows
"financial and material resources are correctly perceived as the
lifeblood of terrorist operations, and governments have determined
that fighting the financial infrastructure of terrorist
organizations is the key to their defeat" (Grialdo and Trinkunas
2007; 1). Since the attacks of 9/11 the US has designed a strong
strategy to fight terrorist groups and their financing.
International and national measures have been carried out such as
the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing
of Terrorism, the enforcement of international sanctions, and the
expansion of law enforcement to target terrorism financing and
disrupt terrorist operation (Sheppard 2002). However, the spectrum
of terrorist funding is broad. In particular, the increasing
reliance on criminal activities by terrorist since the end of the
Cold War and the subsequent decline of state sponsorship, such as
the rising pressure of law enforcement, network structures became
an essential
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