As terrorisms are considered to be transnational crimes. The structure of transnational terrorist groups is not fixed, as they are becoming increasingly decentralized as they take advantage of new technologies, forms of communication and other aspects of globalization. With the lack of central leadership, this allows terrorists to have a greater scale and scope of operations making it harder for these groups to be destroyed.

Interventions of terrorism comes in the form of international aid, military advice and training, and financial and military support to governments. However, there are cases where such aid can negatively affect ordinary citizens of the state being helped, for example in the ‘Chapter 14: Transnational Terrorism’ reading, “it imposes a state of fear on ordinary civilians, who find themselves under threat of strikes termed ‘surgical’ or ‘targeted’ by those operating them but which feel and are perceived as random by civilians in these areas (Coll 2014)” this became very controversial as it gave the terrorists the opportunity to paint the U.S. in a bad way as it caused local fear. The whole concept of terrorism is very flexible in my opinion because there is no exact type of terrorist, anyone is able to develop a strong sense in any political or social views and act upon it using violence. By looking at this perspective, unless there is a sense of strong unity in a nation there are bound to be extremists who will do anything to further their goals. As a result, no one is safe in this world and we are in a world of anarchy.

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