With the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the bipolar lenses through which many viewed the world of political violence and terrorism are gone. No longer can the complexity of this world be reduced to an international terror network of Soviet handlers, agents and proxies working in concert to destabilize the Western world. The definitional and typological complexities that were so cavalierly papered over during the 1970s and 1980s have begun to resurface in the discourse of those concerned with counter-terrorism. Cold warriors who forced a counterinsurgency model onto all things political and violent are now casting about to discern a new world disorder, a new agent of pernicious antiWestern threats. While the current favorite seems to be Islamic fundamentalism, as evidenced by the obscene haste with which commentators attributed the Oklahoma City bombing to Islamic extremists, other candidates include Columbian drug lords and a kind of multinational corporate mafia. Indeed, the post-Cold War era is marked by a dizzying array of conflicts throughout the world and a panoply of actors willing to resort to violence in the name of a wide variety of causes. This is the context in which the US Director of Central Intelligence remarked in 1994 that the jungle is filled no longer with dragons, but with snakes. Yet, as one astute observer retorted, \"I thought dragons were mythical beasts: snakes are dangerously real.\" In other words, the dragons of the Cold War, at least in the context of terrorism and political violence, were more imaginary than real.

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