Terrorism: Why Categories Matter

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Notes

Monica Hakimi, “International Standards for Detaining Terrorism Suspects: Moving Beyond the Armed Conflict – Criminal Divide,” Yale Journal of International Law 33 (2008), 369.

Ashton B. Carter, “The Architecture of Government in the Face of Terrorism,” International Security 26 (2002), 5.

Matthew C. Waxman, “Administrative Detention of Terrorists: Why Detain, and Detain Whom? Journal of National Security Law & Policy 3 (2009).

Matthew C. Waxman, “The Structure of Terrorism Threats and the Laws of War,” Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 20 (2010).

For a survey of social science research related to strengths, weaknesses, organization, and strategies of terrorist groups, see Paul K. Davis and Kim Cragin, eds., Social Science for Counterterrorism: Putting the Pieces Together (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2009).

Curtis A. Bradley and Jack L. Goldsmith, “Congressional Authorization and the War on Terrorism,” Harvard Law Review 118 (2004–05), 2047, 2124.

David Kilcullen, “Subversion and Countersubversion in the Campaign against Terrorism in Europe,” 30 Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 30 (2007), 647, 660.

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Matthew C. Waxman

Matthew C. Waxman is an associate professor at Columbia Law School, New York, New York, and member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law, Stanford, California, USA.