PSCI 2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Maher Arar, Signals Intelligence, Intelligence Cycle
11 Oct 2017
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This includes non-state actors as a point of threat, for the first time. Try to prevent nuclear terrorism across the globe. Defining terrorism: the most definitive contested concept in ir. Individuals targeted are not the actual targets, it"s more to make a statement: key characteristics, an act of terrorism is violent and uses force, the act is intended to serve a political end or purpose. It is not violence for the sake of violence: the victims of the act are often random or arbitrary, the act is intended to instill fear in a larger audience. Extremism is violent, and terrorists are synonymous of extremists. Has very little to do with whether that individual is a radical or a reactionary. Variations of terrorist groups: national liberation organizations try to achieve an independent state, like the american revolution, the ira in ireland, and the.
