Global Terrorism and the United Nations System

The main aim of this article is to evaluate the central role of the United Nations System in creating new international norms and their expansion into the international system. This central role will be examined in the context of “global counter-terrorism efforts”. Terrorism, which gained a “global” quality with the technological developments after the Cold War, became one of the top issues in the agenda of international society after the September 11 attacks. The international society needs to develop new international norms in order to counter global terrorism. In the post-Cold War period, especially the General Assembly and the Security Council have a central role in developing new international norms against global terrorism. Furthermore, these organs have developed new mechanisms which were meant to help the adoption of these norms by international actors in the system.