The Fight Against Terrorism in the National Security Strategy 2013

Abstract

The National Security Strategy 2013 is considered a security framework for dealing with threats and risks and aims thus to ensure security for Spain and its citizens. In the specific case of terrorism, it assumes that ETA has been defeated and it mentions jihadism as the most worrisome type of terrorism. But it ignores other kind of terrorism highlighted by European official documents –especially by Europol— such as lone wolves, the attacks perpetrated by rightist and leftist extremists, and those of nationalist origin, the largest in Spain.