POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ayad Allawi, Yasser Arafat, Iraqi National Accord
23 Sep 2018
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Individual level of analysis: vs. rational-actor assumption, focus: decision making in international crisis, psychological processes and biases affect decision-makers, leaders when they act. One man"s terrorist is not another man"s freedom fighter" movements in the 21st century. Who"s a terrorist: libyan sponsorship vs. u. s. , britain, france, french resistance movement vs. nazi occupation, u. s. sponsorship of contras in nicaragua, mujahideen in afghanistan, hamas elected to power in 2006, yassir arafat in 1970s, menachem begin in 1940s. Iyad allawi in mid-1990s: leader of the iraqi national accord, the us pushed very hard to make the. E. g. pol pot, mao tse-tung, saddam hussein: even if useful: mistake to treat contemporary terrorism as single phenomenon. Colombia: danger can possibly lose all support for the cause. The answer is not a whole heck of a lot. Realism is really all about the relations among states, especially among great powers . My theory and virtually all realist theories don"t have much to say about transnational actors.
