ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a conceptual framework that places the terrorism–counterterrorism nexus within the broader context of social, cultural, political, and economic life. In doing so, it goes beyond the traditional coercive forms of counterterrorism, exemplified by the use of UK or US criminal justice systems and/or the military, to embrace other forms of prevention and control. The conceptual framework is presented as it applies to any one state, within its borders – the domestic or national level of analysis. This is depicted by a figure that includes six policy domains and the transitional grey zones that separate them. Each domain is characterized by a set of rules, norms, and values that shape the interaction between state and nonstate actors – the “controller” and the “controlled” respectively. For each grey zone, a transitional threshold is identified which characterizes how individuals and groups move from one policy domain to the other in an effort to provoke responses from government or in response to actions by state agents within different domains.
