POL208Y5 Chapter Notes -Handicap Principle
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Seek to persuade the enemy that the terrorists are strong enough to impose considerable costs if the enemy continues a particular policy: intimidation. Try to convince the pop that the terrorists are strong enough to punish disobedience and that the gov"t is too weak to stop them, so that people behave as the terrorists wish: provocation. Attempt to induce the enemy to respond to terrorism with indiscriminate violence, which radicalizes the pop and moves them to support the terrorists: spoiling. Persuade the enemy that moderates on the terrorists" side are weak and untrustworthy, thus undermining attempts to reach a peace settlement: outbidding. Regime change: overthrow of a gov"t and its replacement w/ one led by the terrorist or at least one more to their liking. Territorial change: taking territory away from a state either to establish a new state or to join another state. Policy change: broader category of lesser demands, ex.
