ABSTRACT
Some argued that the terrorism of 11 September 2001 was the death knell for
globalization. With some distance from that date, others have argued that
terrorism has hijacked or otherwise co-opted globalization, as though
terrorism were an external force. Neither argument is totally accurate:
modern terrorism is globalization, albeit a parasitic (and paradoxical) dark
side of it, and we in the midst of the first war of globalization. International
law has an important role to play in this war, but it will be ineffectual until it
is adapted to the nature of this war and the enemy of globalization:
transnational agendas of extremist religious authoritarianism, such as
propagated by Al Qaeda.
