There is no doubt that terrorism is a major security problem that the world faces today. But there is far greater doubt as to whether it will constitute the major strategic issue the world will face over the next ten years and beyond, argues Aldo Borgu.

In mid-October 2003, the Attorney-General announced the creation of a new National Threat Assessment Centre (NTAC), to be housed within ASIO and staffed by secondees from police, security and other relevant agencies. As a 24-hour unit dedicated to analysing threats to the security of Australian interests here and overseas, the establishment of the NTAC is...

Papers and webcasts from this conference, held on 10 November 2003, are available online. Speakers included the federal Attorney General, Philip Ruddock; the NSW Police Minister, John Watkins; Jenny Hocking from the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University; Senator John Faulkner, leader of the Opposition in the Senate; Devika Hovell, lecturer in law at...

This paper argues that to invoke the term "war" does not in itself give the United States, or any other country, belligerent rights to attack terrorists wherever they may be found.