US-EU COUNTER-TERRORISM COOPERATION – TOGETHER DESPITE DIFFERENCES (2001–2010) Cover Image

WSPÓŁPRACA STANÓW ZJEDNOCZONYCH I UNII EUROPEJSKIEJ W DZIEDZINIE ZWALCZANIA TERRORYZMU – RAZEM MIMO RÓŻNIC (LATA 2001–2010)
US-EU COUNTER-TERRORISM COOPERATION – TOGETHER DESPITE DIFFERENCES (2001–2010)

Author(s): Witold Ostant
Subject(s): Security and defense, Military policy, Geopolitics
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: US-UE counter-terrorism; terrorism

Summary/Abstract: The article takes a critical viewpoint on the shared co-operation in the area of fighting terrorism by the USA and the EU. The most important issues are raised, which constitute real obstacles in the co-operation of both subjects, in the counteracting the terrorism since the beginning of the political project’s realization by administration of the USA, the political project called GWOT. The publication points out issues only occasionally raised in the journalistic and scientific mainstream, which collide with the cold-war paradigm of the transatlantic community of values. The article aims to raise awareness of the challenges, despite political declarations consistently accepted during the USA/EU summits. The Narrations are based on international documents, so that a recipient could confront independently the legitimacy of proposed theses with other existing in the literature articles, articles concerning GWOT and co-operation in the scope of the USA and EU. The publication points out the modus operandi of the mass media (especially in Poland), which on account of Polish authorities involvement in GWOT, very occasionally raise the politically incorrect subjects. The article aims to generate further detailed reflection on GWOT’s evolution and the further co-operation of the USA and UE in the area of fighting terrorism.

  • Issue Year: I/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 265-285
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish