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Extremism
* Associate Program Head, International Political Economy Associate Professor of Political Economy and Political Science School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA. E-mail: jholmes@utdallas.edu
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Policing is a key component of successful counterterrorism programs as efforts to prevent or disrupt as many attacks today without creating more tomorrow is of paramount importance. As others have emphasized, there is a major role for police in countering terrorism (Clarke and Newman, 2007). The submissions in this special issue touch on many of the fundamental challenges involved in policing domestic extremist groups. To do so successfully, police forces need to be organized and have comprehensive strategies that allow them to combat extremist violence, maintain community support and heed the lessons from the worst-case scenarios of other country experiences.
Organizing for success
In this special issue, two separate studies grapple with organizational issues that relate to one of the major failures identified by the 9/11 commission in the U.S. case that agencies failed to share information and coordinate action to respond to terrorism. Denise
Working within the broader social context
The risks of failure and a worst-case scenario
Conclusion