POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Nuclear Proliferation, Terrorist Threats, Resource Allocation
16 Apr 2014
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Many way to make sense of threats and their meanings: man made vs. natural threats: environment is a man-made threat, traditionally focussed on man-made threats, strategic threats. Try to put yourself in the shoes of the perpetrator. From this first cut, you can infer a distinction between addressing threats and addressing vulnerabilities. Two aspects of terrorism- the group and their weapons, the threat itself, and addressing your own vulnerabilities regarding terrorism- border control, critical infrastructure. Previously, the power of the soviet union was the risk- nuclear proliferation, attack, accident. Overall threat of security was simple- well known, addressed, only ambiguity was the advancement in technology. After 1979 this disappeared: a) rapidly, the idea of nation vs. nation became obsolete. Security was defined outside of this traditional distinction. First terrorist group that were active were in north africa, moving from country to country.
