Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam, Pearl Harbor, Shining Path
18 Jan 2018
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12:45 pm: terrorism is one of the most dramatic factors that influence politics. Law: human rights introduced domestic surveilance, global war on terror, policy response to a threat. Live in the shadow of the us (started in middle east?: on of the many countries affected. It"s a (cid:449)ide sp(cid:396)ead phe(cid:374)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)a: muslims suffered 82-97 percent of terrorism-related fatalities (2006-2011) Ireland: the ira: turkey: the pkk, the kurdish party, considered a terrorist organization, chechnya and russia, palestinian and israeli terrorism. Lebanon 1983-86: peru: shining path, columbia: farc, kashmir and india"s occupation. State sponsored terrorism: lybia and panam flight 103: gov is know to have supported terrorism groups used to achieve political objectives. Libyan gov decision was a retaliation bc americans bombarded a palace who killed the rulers daughter: very few cases we can find that are well documented. Or terrorism: majority of definitions include the idea of non state actors targeting civilians.
