Belgium’s coordinated analysis of threat, action and informationflux:
from AMG over CUTA to (the future) of the ‘Action Plan against Radicalism’
Belgium’s federal ‘Action Plan against Radicalism’ has been in vigour for over a decade. This encompassing preventive-antiterrorist strategy changed a lot since its definite conception in 2006. Before even trying to understand how it has changed (in future research), one must ask the difficult question what it is and how it functions within the broader Belgian executive. Emphasising a long historic process of cumulative yet separate efforts (from an evolutionary-historical perspective) to curb problems relating to having no immediate response to combat terrorism, allows us to discover why and how the current system works and yet remains incredibly complex. Entities like the ‘Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis’ (CUTA) were built on remnants from previous models like the former ‘Antiterrorist Mixed Group’ (AMG) and support the Action Plan today.