ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 assesses international treaty-making efforts on terrorism from the League of Nations era. It argues that the conceptual orientation of these activities was founded on an understanding of terrorism as a one-way threat to state authority from subversive sub-state actors – and that state authority meant the highest echelon of state officials. The chapter shows that the essence of international counter-terrorism at that point was a net of cooperation between aristocratic sovereigns to collaboratively catch their political enemies.
