Global Agenda and the Politics of Double Standard: War Against Terrorism or War of Terrorism?

Abstract

The resurgence of global terrorism in the 21st century compelled for the adoption of war against terrorism as one of the major agenda of globalisation championed by the world powers of the US and her allies. This paper is a theoretical conceptual analysis of the double standard in the war against terrorism whereby the world dominant powers that shouldered the war against terrorism and have identified the phenomenon as a threat to global peace are also found committing atrocities globally, equivalent to or even worse than the acts of terrorists. This paper used secondary sources of data collection such as books, journals, Internet sources, and other documented sources. The data obtained were presented and discussed using thematic content analysis for discussions and findings. The paper discovered that terrorism has been specified and defined differently according to the perceptions and manipulative views of the international media and globalists whereby an act of committing grievous crimes and terror attacks from one side of the world is identified and tagged as terrorism, while the same act from another side of the world, particularly that of the global powers, is overlooked as a minor crime or posthumously rebranded in a softer terminology. Thus, the paper recommends that for a proper war against terrorism to succeed on a global scale, there is a need for justice, equality and fairness in identifying and dealing with global terrorism. There is a need for the world countries to cooperate in dealing with genuine terrorism, both domestically and internationally, irrespective of the victims and aggressors for equal treatment and justice.