ABSTRACT
The “war on terror” has become a central international security concern in the early twenty-first century. Driven by the United States, its reach stretches from the organization of military doctrine to intelligence gathering practices to collective security structures. New strategies and tactics justified by reference to the events of September 11, 2001 are being used to claim that the legal and political structures that had been central to the international order-the long-standing rules of the system-needed radical revision.
