AMST 2011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hard Power, Multilateralism, Unilateralism
Document Summary
Periods of us response to 9/11 (big picture) Iraq and afghan wars, war on terror (wot: military expansion, unilateralism, massive domestic consolidation and expansion of homeland security programs. Legal exceptionalism (consistent theme bush tries to gure out what it can and can"t do legally, violates un convention/geneva convention, so they came up with a legal rationale even if it was a stretch) Period 2: obama administation 2009: military contraction, multilateralism (outreach to allies, but extent is pretty limited), stabilization of homeland security. Yes there has been system integration across departments and major entry points (ports, airlines, etc). There is a greater sharing of data and communications. But there was a rush of adrenaline to get things in place and a failure to follow through. Because of this, there were huge gaps in infrastructure. Every single airport has different policies for tsa.
