This book was written in the latter part of the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 which was a watershed event in world history that provides new context for unconventional political conflict. It highlights significant potential terror future threats for consideration by policymakers, security experts, and counterterrorism practitioners.
It focuses on special new threats that will impact our security worldwide including the consequences of the pandemic, the developing environmental degradation and global warming, the emerging enhanced terrorism, future technologies like gene editing and “crisper” and more. The book frames the empirical links between the impacts of the pandemic and other international systems factors, and terrorism within the context of our contemporary globalized world to scope out basic uncertainties and policy questions for policymakers. It discusses forthcoming challenges to decision-makers trying to counter terror and crime expected in the coming era. The use of novel foresight tools, methods of science communication as well as knowledge sharing and management to help outwit the threats is presented.
As one of the first books to discuss post-corona aspects and to assess these linkages, Issues of Terrorism in the Post-Corona Era provides essential food for thought for decision-makers, policymakers, academics, students, and lay readers who are concerned about humankind’s future.