Terrorism and Governance Strategies in Brussels

In 2013, we reported on the reform process in Belgium in Fyfe, Terpstra and Tops Centralizing Forces [1]. On March 22, 2016, Belgium was confronted with the most dramatic act of terrorism in its history. In this article, we sketch the consequences of these events on the police system and to what extent these events have transformed the community-oriented policing (COP) philosophy on which the police reform of 1998 was based.