ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at poverty as a cause of terrorism and foreign aid as a potential tool to counter this form of violence. It describes in which ways global counterterrorism efforts have created global governance in a new policy field. The chapter focuses on counterterrorism on military approaches and intelligence, which, while useful in pursuing terrorists, do not add much to the resolution of the underlying problems contributing to the emergence of terrorism. It argues that we have to utilize the positive achievements from the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) for increasing stability, peace and prosperity on a global level. In fact, the United States created a dominant discourse, similar to the previous discourse on globalization, to promote global cooperation in the field of counterterrorism. On the other hand, some successful attempts at showing a positive relation between poverty and inequality in countries of origin and the emergence of terrorism from these countries have been made.
