Modern Terrorism and Globalization Essay

Terrorism these days is very different from what it used to be only several decades ago. The modern terrorism movements employ all the latest gifts of the technological progress to make their attacks and actions more effective, their soldiers – more professional and their coordinators – more connected. These changes create a significant impact on the results and outcomes of the terrorist attacks and strengthen the off state agents immensely. The war on terrorism conducted several decades ago used to be much simple technologically because the terrorists experienced serious disadvantage in the aspect of weaponry, equipment, military intelligence. They basically were groups of amateur fighters without any knowledge of military strategies and tactics. After the events of 9/11, when the United States actively joined the war on terrorism the off state groups received a great opportunity to learn and improve, besides, as it is seen in the video called “The End of Sykes-Picot”, the terrorists have succeeded at taking over the American equipment, so to a certain extent, the war on terrorism and the United States’ generous sponsorship of it provide a number of benefits for the terrorism supplying them with knowledge and equipment of the last generation (Zelin 2014).

The process of globalization gradually turned terrorism from a domestic movement into a local international phenomenon. After the events of 9/11 terrorism became intercontinental. In the next several decades the terrorist movements are likely to strengthen by means of obtaining more advanced technologies and machines, they also became more disciplined and well-trained. The terrorist actions that earlier used to happen on local territories and interstate borders now have started to cover longer distances and reach overseas countries such as Russia and the United States. The armies of terrorists grow rapidly too, due to the employment of more efficient strategies of propaganda and framing empowered by the internet terrorist movements now are able to recruit new fighters from abroad, a good example is the protagonist from “The End of Sykes- Picot”, who fights on the Iraq-Syria border, but is originally from Chile (Zelin 2014).

According to the Palestinians, the rocket firing as a way of armed confrontation with Israel is effective and justified, the protagonists of the video called “Gazza’s Rockets Men” state that even if the President of Palestine forbade rocket firing, the Gazan paramilitaries would not stop doing it because they are fighting with people, who occupied their lands (Journeyman Pictures 2012). Besides, the confrontation between the Palestine and Israel is based on a massive clash of religions that makes Palestinians share a belief that “Jews are the most evil sect in the world” (Journeyman Pictures 2012). They view rocket firing as the only tool they can use to protect themselves, and they wish it to become more lethal.

Sykes-Picot agreement is a secret covenant singed between Great Britain and France with the participation of Russia and Italy in 1916 after the end of the First World War. According to this agreement, the most influential European states shared the Middle Eastern territories, which caused a division of the Middle East. The promises given to the Middle Eastern leaders about the creation of the indigenous governments on these territories were never kept. As a result, the modern terrorist movements such as ISIS fight for the establishment of the unified Muslim state in the Middle East.

Reference List

Journeyman Pictures. (2012, November 19). Gaza’s Rocket Men: Frontline of the Israel /Palestine War. Web.

Zelin, A. Y. (2014). al-Ḥayāt Media Center presents a new video message from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “The End of Sykes-Picot”. Web.