SOSC 3655 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Unlawful Combatant, Amay, Moral Panic
8 Nov 2016
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Policing terrorism in the post 9/11 era - colaguori & torres. The very parts of a democracy that it seeks to protect. It was promised that after the fall of soviet communism, there would be a new world order based on the promise of a global capitalist peace: the triumph of the free market. The communist enemy was replaced by the islamic terrorist enemy and a new world disorder has ensued. A military definition of reality has become the norm once again: living in an us vs them" society with a class of civilizations. New laws against fighting terrorists have played games with legal categories: such as unlawful combatant . States around the world have tried to balance many different aims in the post 9/11 era. Terrorism is defined as the violent actions of fringe/non-governmental groups: who use fear and violence in attempts to achieve political aims. Asymmetrical warfare: the war of terror is significantly different from previous wars because:
