Terrorism and Law. Comparative Analysis. Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Peru and Colombia
Political violence is not a new phenomenon in the history of humanity. Neither are the measures taken by the State (legislative or police) to confront it. What is probably new is the tendency to homogenize conceptual and legislative approaches to the phenomenon described as terrorism. Whether through the institutionalization of states of exception (as is customary in the case of Latin America) or through the generation of emergency legislation, the State is increasingly using methods that expand the powers of the Executive Branch and restrict citizens' rights. It was therefore requested of Kai Ambos, a young scholar from the Faculty of Law at the University of Munich, Federal Germany, to carry out an analysis of the anti-terrorist legislation enacted in recent years in some European and Andean region countries. (Excerpt from the presentation).