The Comparative Counterterrorism Project (CCTP) records information about countries’ CT efforts using information from United States (U.S.) Department of State Country Reports on Terrorism (USCRT). The data is recorded at a country-year level of observation and covers 96 countries & territories around the world (includes West Bank & Gaza Strip, Macao, & Hong Kong).
CCTP contains information about:
New or amended CT laws and codes and the state agent(s) involved or affected, newly created CT units or agencies, changes to border security, government agencies responsible for CT and/or border security, terrorism investigations opened and cases brought to trial, dismissed, and closed, the date of kinetic CT operations and state agent(s) involved, names of terrorists groups and ideologies, CT actions taken against groups or ideologies, and foreign fighter repatriations, deportations, and citizenship revocations
The quality, strengthens, and weaknesses of a country's CT and border security (qualitative descriptions)
Klein, Graig R. “Comparative Counterterrorism: All for One, but NOT One for All.” Terrorism: A Decolonial Approach, edited by Sagnik Dutta, Tahir Abbas, and Sylvia I. Bergh, Manchester University Press, 2025. isbn: 9781526178619
