POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, Thai Baht, Global Warming
27 Apr 2013
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Collective security and identifying aggressors: adapting to non state violence. Linkage of conflicts: transnational and intrastate, intrastate conflict conflict within the state boundaries, interstate conflict/international conflict is state actors in conflict, transnational is going beyond borders but involving non state actors. Asymmetric in the way that they are looking at different types of state actors used to distinguish the kinds of characteristics itself. Intrastate conflict: modern conflict [states and non states] Terrorism: violence with a political goal: used by non state actors, political violence is usually but not always directed at non combats. Causes: alienated by particular systems: ideology that drives the acts alkaida. Alienation from the global system, often tied to globalization: key defining feature of terrorism is its globalized nature. Globalization can be seen as a means of terrorism: nature of the problem itself is relatively contestant. The conscious act of trying to eliminate a group of people. Conflicts in sudan are not restricted to the territory.
