ABSTRACT
An important dimension of terrorism over the next five to ten years will be continued efforts to elaborate an international legal framework to develop rules' and norms for the management of politically-motivated violence. This effort will be shaped by globalization and issues that it raises, such as national-self-determination, democratic development and state monopolies over coercion. Globalization has effectively recast terrorism within an inter-network paradigm of relationships. Given this and the complexity of 'terrorism' itself, a straight-forward regime for international legal management is unlikely. A variety of international, regional and national legal responses will be required for a phenomenon that continues to resist clear definition (as the US State Department notes, 'finding clear "patterns" in this form of political violence is becoming more difficult").
