“The Global Politics of Counter-Terrorism” is an ICCT podcast series that was started during our Annual Conference in 2022. The series delves into recent geopolitical shifts and their impact on human rights and the counter-terrorism agenda — through conversations with practitioners, academics, and policy-makers.

In our second episode, we speak with Marc Hecker, Director of Research and Communications and the Editor-in-Chief of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI).
Marc Hecker discusses his own professional journey in the field of counter-terrorism, the history of the twenty year global war on terror, whether we’ve reached the end of a Western global CT agenda, France and the Sahel region, the Wagner group and the future of European values in CT. Interviewing him is Alexander von Rosenbach, ICCT’s business manager.