Chapter II  Major Characteristics and Developmental Trends

 ofin Current International Terrorist Activities

 

Contemporary international terrorism began, which emerged born in the 1960’s, and went throughunderwent had some new changes in the 1990’s., In 1999, a well- known famous United States think tank, in the United States— the Rand Corporation,  put forwardproposed for the first time the concept of “new terrorism” in a special report specially studying the issue of counter-terrorism, and., This pointeding out that since the 1990’s, terrorism had been transformed from traditional terrorism to the “new terrorism” inof the information age.

 

After Following the “9·11” Incident, some overseas researchers overseas calledreferred to theis incident as a watershed ofin international terrorist activities, heralding a new development stage in the development of international terrorism, that is, the advent of “new terrorism”. Its “newness” is mainly reflected in its tendency oftowards global expansion, the mode of its transnational activities, its unprecedentedly profound influence and its the networking of organizational networksthe networked organizational structure, among other factorss etc.[1] It has been Someone said that “ ‘Al Qaeda’ and its activities are a typical example of the “new terrorism”.[2] These views have nodoubtundoubtedly objectively pointed out objectively the new changes ofin international terrorism induring the recent decade. However at the same timeMeanwhile, we should also see that whetherregardless of from the perspective of the root causes for, motives for or organization and mode of activitiesy means of terrorism, at present and for in the current and the near future period, international terrorism over the long term will still be a combination of have the characteristics of the combination of the “new” and the “old,” and an amalgamationlternation of the alternation of the “new” and the “old”; or as counter-terrorist experts ofat RAND Corporation have said put it vividly, “new terrorism”andwith “old roots”.[3] This chapter will only briefly describe the activity characteristics of the activities of and future developmental trendsforency of international terrorist forces after the “9·11” Incident.

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