ABSTRACT
Writing on terrorism, Walter Laqueur, an expert in this field, discusses the traps future scholars might have to avoid: ‘… the historian of the future will be right in pointing to the wide discrepancy between the strong speeches and the weak actions of those who felt threatened [by terrorism]’.2 He goes on to elaborate on the essence of terrorism and proposes strategies to counter it. These are also supposed to explain the reasons for the discrepancy between the menace felt, so often and so loudly warned against, and the unsatisfying policies applied to counter it.
