Political Science 3314E Lecture : Counterterrorism
7 Feb 2012
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Debate y strategic culture: states are predisposed by historical experiences, political systems and cultures to deal with security issues in a particular way y us culture: Individuals y y transnational networks y weak military component y. Public diplomacy reaching to the populations of different countries and trying to make them understand what european policy is. Positive incentives to change state behaviour y us: war on terror. Employs a variety of military policies in their policy approach. Need to provide information to the middle east about their intentions. Terrorist problem that america faced was from non-state actors responded very quickly into military action against states. Us took a non conventional security threat and they tried to attack it in a conventional way. When you launch a full scale military war against a group in a country you re launching it against the world as well. Reaction to specific policies y american approach.
