The Counter-Terrorism Policy of Tony Blair Administration after 911 Attack (2001-2004)

• Main Authors: Shu-hui Chen, 陳淑慧
• Other Authors: Cheng-Wen, Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04240158301378341035

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 歐洲研究所碩士班 === 93 === The most devastating and serious international threat during the post cold war period is the international terrorism. Due to its cross-border massive attacks, nations all over the world have launched a series of anti-terror measures. Starting from 1970s, British government had been fighting against its domestic threat—the Northern Ireland Terrorism. When Blair administration took the office in 1997, Tony Blair still followed the traditional policies. However, after the 911 attack, he started to initiate new counter-terrorism policy in order to fight the new threat. In the aftermath of the attack, Blair had endeavored to develop his new policy in anti-international-terrorism area. His new policy envelopes three main goals— enhancing the Anglo-American relationship, building regional and global counter-terrorism partnership and regaining British international influence, in order to secure British national interests. To achieve the goals, Tony Blair employs four approaches; “Fighting violence with violence”, “appeasement policy”, “international cooperation” and “protection of human rights”. This thesis emphasizes the 911’s impact on Blair’s policy against international terrorism. The main research method is using both “Realism” and “Internationalism” to analyze the background, issues and features of his policy. The thesis is divided five chapters and the structure as follows: the first chapter is mainly about the history background of British counter-terrorism policies before 911. The second chapter contains the objects, methods of Tony Blair’s new measure and anti-terror legislation in the aftermath of 911. The third chapter is the contributors of his new policy. The forth chapter contains British bilateral, regional and global cooperation against international terrorism. The fifth chapter is through the two theories to assess his policy, and at the same time foreseeing his future policy in the third term.