Is terrorism a problem in the United States? What strategy does the United States use to combat terrorism? What are some of the paradigms used in an American counterterrorism strategy? How does international terrorism affect American counterterrorism strategy? What events in our countries past affect what techniques we use today? What is the future going to hold for the United States and is homegrown terrorist going to play a more significant role in the United States Counterterrorism Strategy?
The 4 Paradigms of Counterterrorism The United States and other countries have many different way to find a erase terrorism from the world but the effort of bringing terrorist to justice has to be planned and prepared to make a precise plan and what the goal is and who is involved. This is where the 4 paradigms were created to address these issues. The paradigms are: War Model, Defense Model, Criminal Justice Model, and the Reconciliatory Model. The War Model
In combatting terrorism, the war model focuses greater importance on limiting or countering terrorism rather than protecting liberal democratic rights. Observing …show more content…
Policymaker, politicians, brokers and diplomats are the direct agents involved in the reconciliatory model. The Reconciliatory model focuses on reforms and optimization about eliminating problems with terrorist rather than fighting against terrorist to achieve results. Both unlimited requests of terrorist and condemnation of citizens about meeting the demands of terrorist, governments favor this strategy. Furthermore, it is measured that saving lives of citizens or following through with terrorist requests endanger more citizens’ safety and independence (Snapper, J., 2011). This model isn’t utilized often; our government tends to use this model as a last resort to combat