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Full-Text Articles in International Relations
The Yemen Narrative: Cargo Cults And Cargo Security, Ibpp Editor
The Yemen Narrative: Cargo Cults And Cargo Security, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author gives a psychological perspective on the security of aviation cargo shipments.
The Strange Fruit Of 9/11, Ibpp Editor
The Strange Fruit Of 9/11, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author discusses the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks and the larger psychological narrative and context of the attacks. Stoicism is considered as a viable response.
American Graffiti: Musings On The Ground Zero Mosque, Ibpp Editor
American Graffiti: Musings On The Ground Zero Mosque, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author discusses reactions and parallels to a mosque proposed near the site of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in public discourse.
Counterterrorism Intelligence Analysis: Language As Threat, Vulnerability, And Risk, Ibpp Editor
Counterterrorism Intelligence Analysis: Language As Threat, Vulnerability, And Risk, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author discusses the role of language in describing possible membership in or connection to al Qaeda.
An Update On Suicide Terrorism, Ibpp Editor
An Update On Suicide Terrorism, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author considers the potential moral and ethical merits of suicide and suicide terrorism from a historical and philosophical perspective.
Spot Off: The Gao Takes On The Tsa’S Behavior Detection Program, Ibpp Editor
Spot Off: The Gao Takes On The Tsa’S Behavior Detection Program, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recently Issued Efforts to Validate TSA’s Passenger Screening Behavior Detection Program Underway, but Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Validation and Address Operational Problems (May 2010, GAO-10-763). This IBPP article will describe and comment on the main GAO findings and additional data on which the findings are based. The article will end with some basic challenges to behavior detection as a useful security measure.
The Word On Terrorism Threat As Terrorism Threat, Ibpp Editor
The Word On Terrorism Threat As Terrorism Threat, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author discusses terrorism (and terms associated with it), considering the social rhetoric surrounding the terms as well as other potential meanings. The constraints of the words used to define these terms of terror are considered.
Terrorism And The Law: Show Trials And Why The Show Must Go On, Ibpp Editor
Terrorism And The Law: Show Trials And Why The Show Must Go On, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author discusses the nature and meaning of terrorism trials during the United States’ war on terror.
The Psychology Of Female Suicide Terrorism: Context And A Partial, Annotated Bibliography, Ibpp Editor
The Psychology Of Female Suicide Terrorism: Context And A Partial, Annotated Bibliography, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author examines the phenomena of female suicide in the context of terrorism, and the reasons women suicide, examining selected sources on the topic.
Why Terrorism? Whose Terror?, Ibpp Editor
Why Terrorism? Whose Terror?, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author considers terrorism as a competitor for the legally constituted authority and power of governments.
Pakistan’S Nuclear Weapons Program And Implications For Us National Security., Michael Tkacik
Pakistan’S Nuclear Weapons Program And Implications For Us National Security., Michael Tkacik
Faculty Publications
This article analyzes Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program and the characteristics of the environment in which the program is nested. These characteristics include Pakistan’s history of internal and external instability; nuclear saber rattling during crises; support for Islamic terrorism in order to advance state goals; indigenous production of many elements of its nuclear forces; possession of delivery and command and control systems with destabilizing characteristics; and finally, nuclear doctrine that appears to advocate first use of nuclear weapons. The article argues that the characteristics of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program generate threats to US national security interests. The article examines six interrelated …
Terrorism Conflict: How The United States Responds To Al Qaeda Violence And Expressed Grievances, Richard Craig Rosthauser
Terrorism Conflict: How The United States Responds To Al Qaeda Violence And Expressed Grievances, Richard Craig Rosthauser
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This study analyzes how the United States responds to Al Qaeda's messages and expressions of grievances and how America's responses escalate the conflict between the United States and Al Qaeda.
After its first two attacks against America, Al Qaeda devised a strategy to draw America into a guerrilla war in Afghanistan, stating its intentions in its "Declaration of War" in 1996. Before this declaration, Al Qaeda worked from the shadows and denied reports it was either funding terrorism or participating in terrorism. Bin Laden continued his denials but took responsibility for some terrorist acts in his messages. President Clinton did …
Fostering Global Security: Nonviolent Resistance And Us Foreign Policy, Amentahru Wahlrab
Fostering Global Security: Nonviolent Resistance And Us Foreign Policy, Amentahru Wahlrab
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation comprehensively evaluates, for the first time, nonviolence and its relationship to International Relations (IR) theory and US foreign policy along the categories of principled, strategic, and regulative nonviolence. The current debate within nonviolence studies is between principled and strategic nonviolence as relevant categories for theorizing nonviolent resistance. Principled nonviolence, while retaining the primacy of ethics, is often not practical. Indeed, most nonviolent movements have not been principled, or solely principled. Strategic nonviolence is attractive because it does not require any individual or group to believe in a particular faith or ethical tradition. However, strategic nonviolence is problematic as …
Habeas Corpus In The Age Of Guantánamo, Cary Federman
Habeas Corpus In The Age Of Guantánamo, Cary Federman
Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The purpose of the article is to examine the meaning of habeas corpus in the age of the war on terror and the detention camps at Guantanamo Bay. Since the war on terror was declared in 2001, the writ has been invoked from quarters not normally considered within the federal courts’ domain. In this article, I set out to do two things: first, I provide an overview of the writ’s history in the United States and explain its connection to federalism and unlawful executive detention. I then set out to bridge the two meanings of habeas corpus. Second, then, I …
Against The State Governance, Governance From Below & Governing Through Terrorism: Analytically Investigating The Technologies Of Power Within The Terrorist Arsenal., Allen Gnanam
Allen Gnanam
Terrorism as a violent and destabilizing act performed by terrorists, meaning loyal followers of political or religious agendas who hold resent and animosity toward a certain authority/ government (Lin, Liou, & Wu, 2007, pg. 149), will be explored and analyzed through the utilization of the governmentality perspective. For the purposes of this paper terrorism governance will refer to the governance/ control/ influence exerted by terrorists and terrorism. The focus of this explorative and analysis paper will be to identify diverse terrorism oriented technologies of governance, and analyze the ways in which these technologies enable terrorist to exert governance both indirectly …