Foreign Policy In Focus Special Report: A Secure America in a Secure World

<body background="../../images/background.jpg"> <table width="562" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="38"> <tr> <td height="53" width="562"> <img src="../images/fpif-head.gif" width="600" height="40" alt="Foreign Policy In Focus"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="index.html" target="_parent"><br> FPIF Home</a> | <a href="http://www.ips-dc.org/" target="_parent">IPS Home</a> | <a href="http://www.irc-online.org/" target="_parent">IRC Home</a> | <a href="site-index.html" target="_parent">Site Index</a> | <a href="search.html" target="_parent">Search</a> | <a href="form_subscribe-briefs.html" target="_parent">Subscribe</a> | <a href="form_feedback.html" target="_parent">Feedback</a> | <a href="https://secure.iexposure.com/fpif.org/donate.cfm" target="_blank">Donate</a></font></td> </tr> </table> <br> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600"> <tr valign="top"> <td width="518"><p><font color="008080"><i><u>FPIF Special Report<br> </u></i>September 2004</font></p> <h1 align="left"><font face="Arial" color="008080"> A Secure America <br> in a Secure World</font></h1> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" color="008080">By John Gershman <br> </font><font color="008080"><i>John Gershman is also an adjunct professor at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School for Public Service. He was previously a research fellow at the Institute for Health and Social Justice (1995-2000) and policy director at the Institute for Food and Development Policy (1992-1995). He has co-edited two books on global economics and authored or co-authored several articles on security in the Asia/Pacific, including “Is Southeast Asia the Second Front?” </i>Foreign Affairs<i>, July/August 2002.</i></font></p></td> <td width="82"><p><a href="../../pdf/reports/terrorism/FPIFterrorRPTsmall.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="../../images/icon_download_&_print.gif" width="69" height="24" border="0" alt="Printable PDF"></a></p> <p><a href="javascript:openTafWindow('/?action=etfform&url=http://www.fpif.org/papers/04terror/app2.html','TellAFriend','scrolling=yes,resizable,width=600,height=400')"><img src="../../images/icon_share.gif" width="38" height="27" border="0" alt="Email this page to a friend"></a></p> <p><a href="../../form_feedback.html" target="_parent"><img src="../../images/icon_feedback.gif" width="51" height="22" border="0" alt="Give us your feedback"></a></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><table width="600" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Foreign Policy In Focus</font></td> <td><div align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="http://www.fpif.org/" target="_parent">www.fpif.org</a></font></div></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" colspan="2"><p> </p> <h3> App. 2: Major U.N. Conventions Against Terrorism </h3> <p>Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft, signed at Tokyo on September 14, 1963.</p> <p> Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, signed at The Hague on December 16, 1970.</p> <p> Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, signed at Montreal on September 23, 1971.</p> <p> Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons including Diplomatic Agents, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 14, 1973.</p> <p> International Convention against the Taking of Hostages, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 17, 1979.</p> <p> Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, signed at Vienna on March 3, 1980.</p> <p> Protocol on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, signed at Montreal on February 24, 1988.</p> <p> Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, done at Rome on March 10, 1988.</p> <p> Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf, done at Rome on March 10, 1988.</p> <p> Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection, signed at Montreal on March 1, 1991.</p> <p> International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 15, 1997.</p> <p> International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 9, 1999.</p> <p> Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Conventions Against Terrorism, at: <<a href="http://www.unodc.org/unodc/terrorism_conventions.html" target="_blank">http://www.unodc.org/unodc/terrorism_conventions.html</a>> </p> <p align="center"><font size="-1"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="index.html" target="_parent">Executive Summary</a> | <a href="intro.html" target="_parent">Introduction</a> | <a href="failed.html" target="_parent">A Failed Policy</a> | <a href="new.html" target="_parent">A New Framework</a> | <a href="change.html" target="_parent">Changing Course</a> | <a href="notes.html" target="_parent">Endnotes</a> <br> <a href="app1.html" target="_parent">App. 1: Funding for Counterterrorism</a> | App. 2: Major U.N. Conventions Against Terrorism | <br> <a href="app3.html" target="_parent">App. 3: U.N. Security Council Resolutions Regarding Terrorism Post-September 11, 2001</a> <br> <a href="taskforce.html" target="_parent">Foreign Policy In Focus Task Force on Terrorism</a></font></font></p> <p align="center"> </p> <blockquote> <p align="center"><a href="../index.html" target="_parent"><img src="../../images/icon_fpif_25.jpg" width="113" height="38" border="0" alt="Return to FPIF homepage"></a></p> </blockquote> <div align="center"> <center> <table width="170" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" background="http://www.fpif.org/images/background_10-dark.jpg" mm_noconvert="TRUE"> <script language="javascript" src="/all_sites/email.js"></script> <form action="http://www.irc-online.org/lists/subscribe/" method="post" name="quick_subscribe" onSubmit="return valid_list_signup(this);" > <tr> <td><p align="center"> <input type="text" name="email" onFocus="enter_email(this);" value="email" size="17" > <br> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="subscribe"> <input type="hidden" name="group" value="17"> <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://www.fpif.org/pr-subscribe_confirm.html" > <input type="submit" name="subscribepr" value="subscribe" > <br> <font face="Arial" size="1">to receive weekly commentary and expert analysis via our <i>Progressive Response </i>ezine.</font> </td> </tr> </form> </table> </center> </div> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="600"> <tr> <td><p><font size="2">Published by Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), a joint project of the Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC, online at <a href="http://www.irc-online.org/" target="_parent">www.irc-online.org</a>) and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS, online at <a href="http://www.ips-dc.org/" target="_blank">www.ips-dc.org</a>). ©2004. 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