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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"war on terror"”.
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Stakeholders of terrorism, the war on terror and Caribbean preparedness
This thesis offers the Stakeholders of Terrorism concept with a view to more fully understanding the Caribbean’s preparedness for, and vulnerability to terrorism. In doing so, it presents an original assessment of the underscrutinised subject of terrorism as it relates to the Caribbean. It argues …
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Disrupting Memory: Trauma and Fictions of the ‘War on terror’
This thesis explores the ways in which transnational fiction in the post-9/11 era can intervene in discourse surrounding the ‘war on terror’ to advocate for marginalised and excluded perspectives. This study conceptualises global political discourse—as it relates to the ‘war on terror’ and its …
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The Civilian and the War on Terror: Do Norms Shape Strategy?
<p>Despite a growing research agenda centered on issues of civilian immunity, it remains unclear what effect norms protecting civilians have on state behavior, especially democracies. This study asks when and how the civilian immunity norm (CIN) matters, specifically examining how it alters short …
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The global war on terror memorial and the rhetoric of commemoration.
… discuss the rhetoric surrounding the plan to construct a national memorial for the Global War on Terror. It looks at three distinct areas of discourse relating to the project: the congressional debates over the memorial, the principles the memorial foundations declared that they hoped the final …
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Besieged Life: Subjecting Liberal Muslim Women in the War on Terror
This qualitative inquiry examines the subjection of young British Muslim women in a northern, post-industrial city in Britain. Research has established that Muslim women are constructed by security policy, popular media, film, television, and the news as abnormal, suspicious, and lacking agency. …
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Control, Detention and Torture in the So-called Global War on Terror
… three books and three solo survey museum exhibitions that form a collective body of research contributing new knowledge about unseen or underrepresented aspects of conflict and counterterrorism in the so-called Global War on Terror, including the detention camps at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo …
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Examining the Legality of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Used in the War on Terror
Enhanced interrogation techniques are highly controversial. However, it is important to discuss their role and utility in the post-911 security environment, where terrorist organizations are a threat to national and international security. The flaw in the current debate is the fact that enhanced …
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The inadequate dominance of realism : an analysis of the U.S. war on terror /
There has been and will continue to be substantial debate over how the international system can best be characterized. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that the international system can best be characterized by the essential features of realism, but the use of realist policy …
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Terrorism and Africa : a study of Africa's response to the global war on terror
Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-56)
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From the Cold War to the War on Terror: Affecting 1st Amendment Rights in America
… of my thesis specifically looked into the Cold War era and the various ways the political climate caused First Amendment rights to be abridged. The second chapter of my thesis took this idea one step further. In the next installment of my thesis I researched how the Cold War era created a bridge …
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Retention of U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Officers Before and After the Global War on Terror (GWOT)
This thesis analyzes the effect of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) on the retention of Navy Surface Warfare Officers. Multivariate probit models are used to estimate the effects of commissioning source and other demographic variables on retention. The data set used was based on archival data …
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Governmentality, Biopolitics, and State Sovereignty: the Spatial Dialectic Production of Uyghur during the `War on Terror`
… over territory and at the level of the population. This thesis is specifically concerned with the relational contexts of the People’s Republic of China during the `War on Terror.` Hence, this thesis engages how the state discursively produces what and how `Uyghur` is relationally dependent on …
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Beyond the trauma hero: the discourse of American war fiction from the Global War on Terror
… from Afghanistan, the last major theatre of war for post 9/11 veterans, marks a turning point for the United States. This new period of relative warlessness allows the nation to reflect on its collective experiences of the last 20 years of war and think critically about our actions and …
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The "War on Terror," Mortality Salience, and American Prejudice Before and After the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings
<p>The United States’ counterterrorism efforts have been framed in various ways in the media and politics, and each framing metaphor varies in its ability to accurately describe counterterrorism (Kruglanski, Crenshaw, Post, & Victoroff, 2007). Each frame also may have effects on the way the public …
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Middle-earth's War on Terror: a Post-9/11 Reception Study on the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
… in light of 9/11 and its proximity to Peter Jackson's film adaptations hitting theaters. </p>
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Guerrilla Warfare and Terrorism: The Distinctions Between Them and Their Implications in the War on Terror and Beyond
… and other similar events, an interesting question has been raised: are these events acts of terrorism? The ambiguity in meaning regarding terrorism which renders such questions necessary also extends to other types of political violence, such as guerrilla warfare. Building on the work of …
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