POLS 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Barry Posen, Hegemony, Al-Qaeda
10 Oct 2018
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What does he say about solution: education, understanding the opposing point of view, conflict is inevitable, but try at least, end anarchy. Conflict does not require an ethnic cleavage. Not true that a people are violent, everyone is violent potentially given the right. It is also not true, that a certain people, circumstances. Thugs are main cause of violence: (cid:862)thugs(cid:863) are a(cid:373)o(cid:374)g us, with the right encouragement they will act, in a typical violent manner. Most conflicts are not perpetrated by ethnic hate, but by hooliganism and drunkenness. What (cid:455)ou just (cid:374)eed to ha(cid:448)e is a(cid:374) authorit(cid:455) figure of so(cid:373)e ki(cid:374)d to sa(cid:455), (cid:862)he(cid:455) go ahead a(cid:374)d loot, go for it(cid:863) It is not primordial, it is by and large constructed or conjured up; made up by people in positions of authority. Says: canadians might be peaceful, but they also play hockey and in that environment, when it is okay, shit gets real.
