SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anwar Al-Awlaki, Social Fact, Narratology
16 Mar 2016
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Shafia trial: tooba mohammad yahya + mohammad shafia + hamed shafia convicted of 1st degree murder. Life in prision (in canada): 25 years in prision. > if you declare war, there are rules and laws but not in the case of terrorism. Every state in international law is independent and is not inferior. Principle of state sovereignty political self determination. Principle of legal equality between states (can decide what kind of poitical/legal economic system they will have) Principal of non-intervention (unless mass amount of people are dying, you cant go into a country and intervene) Territoriality each state has its own border those borders are not permeable for other states. Two paradigms: criminal law (law enforcement) and war. Difficult to determine the level of threat. Do states have the right to protect themselves. Where to draw the lines: no uniforms" no base, different from traditional theatre of war. Civilian/lawful combatant//unlawful combatant terrorist in afghanistan.
