GOVT 327 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Al-Qaeda, Structural Level, The New York Times
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Terms to be able to explain a short answer or essay: De-respecting vs. disrespecting, taking away one"s respectability. Challenged our status as a powerful nation. Said we should work on defeating al qaeda instead of going to war with iraq. We have no exit strategy, iraq"s chemical/biological weapons could harm troops and surrounding states, and no credible evidence that iraq and al qaeda connected. Wanted to reassert power by going into iraq. Echo effect, everyone in bush administration just started agreeing. We don"t know what was actually going on in the pentagon. Policy is relevant if we can stop worrying about things we can"t answer. Can use theories if they can help make sense of the world. Use eclecticism to get causal mechanism that you can"t get at the structural level. Paradigms that we set up limit us because of the boundaries between them. Asks questions wider than paradigms and closer to what policymakers face.
