This book will benefit theorists and practitioners of anti-terrorism law and policy at the national and international levels, including politicians and lawmakers as well as academics, military institutions, and United Nations bodies and figures. It is also useful to non-governmental human rights organizations, as well as scholars of colonialism and neo-colonialism.

Providing a legal history of counter-terrorism in colonial and neo-colonial eras, this book examines the relationship between Western influence and counter-terrorism law.