U.s. Counter-terrorism Policy In The Twentieth Century

As an ancient political phenomenon, terrorism is long - standing. But modem international terrorism broke out in the end of 1960s. Since then all kinds of terrorism activities have emerged in an endless stream, and they have influences on the peace and development of the world . At present it has been an important matter that endangers the security of the human society. So it is necessary that each country of the world ought to strengthen international coop-eration, to keep a lookout and attack international terrorism.A lot of countries and regions have suffered terrorism attack since the wave of terrorism is rampant. Among them, U.S.A is always the first target. According to the statistical data, there are more than 1/3 terrorism attack inci-dents which are aimed at U. S. A. Facing the phenomenon, We have to pay at-tention to and keep a look out it. The thesis will initially probe into the prob-lem.It consists of three parts. The first part studies the origin of American anti- terrorism policy. It starts from the objective fact that anti - America activi-ties have been increasing since 1960s and analyses the main causes that lead to the phenomenon. The second part analyses the development of American anti- terrorism policy. It divides three historical periods to expound it. The cont-ent relate to the establishment of anti - terrorism strategy, organization, armed power, the anti - terrorism documents and so on . The third part studies the di-lemma of American anti - terrorism policy.