AGAINST GLOBAL TERRORISM

The article is devoted to the fight against international terrorism that began since September 11, 2001 vicissitudes. The author describes the current worldwide scene characterized by the neo-liberal logics of the third big wave of globalization, the hegemony of the economic over the social and the political system, and the crisis of the constitutional democracies. The United States’ answer to the Twin Towers of New York attacks is based on unilateralism, and there are two levels, through which the American reaction to these events is expressed: the preventive war and the emergency legislation. The role of the EU in the fight against international terrorism is set, and its antiterrorist legislation, taken to address the deep changes in matter of «international security», is analyzed. Besides that, the author describes the attempt of the Italian legislator to adapt Italian antiterrorist norms to changed European security situation and to clarify the notion of «terrorism».