SOC225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sleeper Agent, Security Certificate, Al-Qaeda
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Response of democratic states to the threat of terrorism: Security certificates in canada: title: will canada deport to torture, video watch it later. The only appeal to him now is to stay deported. Political terrorism: furtherance of political cause is the main objective of political terror, political terror includes genocide, massacre, assassination, torture, physical beatings, harassment, systematic defamation, etc, not all forms of civil violence constitutes terrorism. What is terrorism: terrorism is as od as human civilization, 1. Julius ceasar"s murder in 44 bc was politically motivated: 2. Russian narodnaya volya (people"s will, 1878-1881) and the assassination of tsar alexander ii in 1881: 4. The nazi regime (1933-1945) and the holocaust: 5. Air india 182 crash in 1985: 6. What is terrorism: terrorism is difficult to define and grasp, it is a contentious phenomenon, it is (often) a weapon of the weak, it can be used by the state to maintain its power.