Geography 3312A/B Lecture Notes - Eric Hobsbawm, Counter-Terrorism, Al-Qaeda
1 Dec 2012
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Used to be about destroying the opponent"s military: 90% of deaths today are civilian or non-combatant. Rarely inter-state now, but internationalized internal or purely internal. Conflict: a state of disharmony between incompatible or antithetical persons, ideas or interests. War: most advanced state of conflict between or within societies. Inflation that hurts the poor more than the rich. Informal livelihoods, like petty trading which may come to encompass the petty trading of assets needed for security. Increase in gov"t spending towards police and military, but away from the social. Poor supply of basic goods & services (doctors, education & food) Women face additional demands on time and work. Families are split up by conflict children separated from parents & orphans made. Market-based entitlements fall: wages from both employment and self-employment, rising inflation. Direct entitlements, like agricultural production, become more important, but harder to do. Public entitlements fall, especially because tax capacity collapses.
