Let’s Learn from the Experience of Others: Poland and Its Preparations for a Higher Terrorist Threat
Let’s Learn from the Experience of Others: Poland and Its Preparations for a Higher Terrorist Threat

Author(s): Kacper Rękawek
Subject(s): Governance, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Studies in violence and power, Radical sociology
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Poland; Western Europe; Islamist terrorism; security threats; counter-terrorism measures; preparations for a higher terrorist threat; recruitment to terrorist organisations;
Summary/Abstract: Islamist terrorism is one of the main security threats to Western Europe. Poland and other Central and Eastern European countries, which are at far less risk, are able to utilise the experiences of their Western European partners and enhance the scope of their counter-terrorism measures to include preventing and combating radicalisation and recruitment to terrorist organisations. This will enable the “new” EU Member States to construct comprehensive counter-terrorism strategies before the terrorist threat escalates, rather than after, as was the case with Western Europe.

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