The Global Perspectives on Terror Threats Research (Essay Sample)

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The Global Perspectives on Terror Threats
The developing Terror Threats
The global platform of socio-economic and political environment has faced ongoing trends of re-shape and continuous modifications as a result of the diverse global forces. Over the years, all human kind from all over the world have experienced the impact of all these global forces, most of which have posed major threats to human peaceful existence (Kelleher & Joe, 42). Looking at the major global threats that have caused havoc both to the developed and to the developing economies alike is the acts of terrorism.
Over the years, the global populations have lived in fear of a terrorist act that always assume newer forms with the application of newer technologies and tactics every other day, making it very much unpredictable. The increasing global threat can be directly linked to the historical trends of global inequalities, de-colonialism and post-colonialism ("United States”, 11). While the underlying ideology behind most terrorist attack have always been on the grounds of revenge or an act of communicating grievances on certain policies or actions by the group or region that is considered to be the enemy of the terror group. Global inequality that is the main force behind global dominance has pushed some radicalized group to actively attack whoever is thought of being superior. As nations continually fight to gain access to various global resources, other states or various groups would feel infringed and invaded and would react through acts of terror as an expression of their discomforts (Scudder & Thayer, 21). Even with the global efforts of reconstructions of states in the post-colonialist era, the efforts of de-colonialism have always been misunderstood as another form of dominance by the radicalized group as another way of foisting certain belief systems on others and this has sparked a lot of grievances leading to terrorist acts.
Upholding Values
The socio-political agenda after World War II were aimed at rebuilding the world that was massively destroyed by the impacts of the first and the Second World War. The idea was to reconstruct the world economy, build human capacity, develop collective social responsibilities and bring about a collective socio-economic and political agenda that will unite the world and bring about a sense of collective support to all humanity.
With all the international strategies aimed at achieving the overall global objectives, almost all individual states had also developed their own internal value systems that were aimed at utilizing their internal capacities to achieve their own sense of unity, patriotism and gain democratic rights and actively participate in the development agenda as a sense of responsibility (Kelleher & Joe, 47). All these internal efforts were designed to be in line with the general international eco-political and social agenda of the international community that were formulated immediately after the war.
As each nation worked towards upholding values and standing as a united force to face terrorism, they join hands with the global effort to overcome all the divisive forces of terror and achieve the overall goal of international integration (Freeman & Michael, 18). The call to maintain and uphold values in the face of terrorist acts is a national effort that directly resonates with the global policies since the goal overall focus remains one, to collectively combat terrorism and restore peaceful coexistence (Scudder & Thayer, 35). The efforts made by individual countries like upholding their values when faced with heinous acts of terror is aimed at sending signals to the terrorist groups that their agenda has failed and it follows then that a win for such a nation is taken as a win to the global society.
The impacts of terrorist acts on the global governance
When acts of terror are committed in any part of the world, the global governance is directly concerned since such very acts touches and disturbs the global cohesive structures that have highly burdened the institutions of civil society to develop and uphold. The global governance is faced with the challenges of reconstruction after the damages caused by such acts. Acts of terror not only destroys lives and property, its effects extents to the breaking of the global peace initiatives. Provision of humanitarian support, restoring the lost property together with other forms of support distracts the global governance from its routine development agenda (Freeman & Michael, 2...