POL 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Complex Interdependence, Asymmetric Warfare

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1102
• Professor: Tyler Attwood

Document Summary

Powerful pressures have changed nat"l economies and societies altering the perception of external threats. Changed views on utility of force and forms of war. Glo(cid:271)alization (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)es an e(cid:454)pansion of the (cid:448)ie(cid:449) of se(cid:272)u(cid:396)it(cid:455) to in(cid:272)lude . Castell"s 4 crises faced by states as a result of globalization. These create new risks and sources of threat. War in the 21st century likely to be conflicts w/in failed or fragile states (civil or sectarian conflict). Precision bombings and drones in asymmetric conflicts may have replaced large land wars b/w standing armies. Terrorism as a tactic: deliberate and indiscriminate targeting of civilians for a political or broader purpose. The use of violence to obtain political power to redress grievances possibly worsened by globalization. Historically, terrorism = violence used by the state against its own population: e. g. french revolution, stalinism, etc, replaced this w/ the words "repression" and "state violence"