POLS 261 Lecture 7: POLS 261 Lectures Week 7-12

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 261
• Professor: Stefanievon Hlatky

Document Summary

Short-term global problems: greater focus on non- Conventional weaponry (heavy) ; large bombers, armies. Main features: private individuals and groups, prior planning, willful use of violence; seen as a crime, war, and a disease, targeting of civilians. Meant to generate mass anxiety and unravel/weaken the political relationship between the government and the citizens, due to fear: highly symbolic and politically motivated, deep psychological impact. Responses: antiterrorism: defensive efforts to reduce the vulnerability of targets to terrorist attacks and to lessen the impact of terrorist attacks when they do occur, counterterrorism: practices, strategies, and policies that governments employ to fight terrorism. Treat it as a crime and legislate wars to fight this. Strategies: torture (terrorist detainees at guantanamo, extraordinary renditions, wars (gwot, afghanistan and iraq, targeted drone strikes. Damaged us reputation: us and nato"s focus was more on high military assistance (eg. in iraq sending forces for counter insurgencies)