POL326Y1 Lecture : POL326Y Lecture June 20.docx
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States in western europe emerged out of a process which combined the realtors of power (local strong men) to extract resources from the subject populations and then use these resources to expand their territorial reach: using this extension to extract further resources, and using these resources to expand territory and to engage in state making , states in this process are under protection brackets of a much larger scale, and territorially bounded. Since collapse of soviet union, us has faced no real threats: therefore responded to non threats in ways that diminished it"s security there have always been elements in the us bent on invading different territories for different reasons the treat of terrorism is not an extesential threat, not the same as the treat of japan or russsia, etc. huge level of paranoia continues to be maintained in the is bipartisanship in these regards and actions of the nsa, these of second term.
