Violent non-state actors and challenges to the state

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  • Created on: 11-05-21 14:04
What is widening in security studies?
In 1980s when academics started questioning the focus on states and military security and considered environmental societal and economic issues
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What is deepening in security studies?
When academics started thinking above and beneath the state
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Bueger (2016) 6 factors that trigger piracy
geography, weak law enforcement, maritime insecurity, economic dislocation, cultural acceptability and skills and the prevalence of criminal minded entrepreneurs
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What are mercenaries ?
Financially motivated fighters who use force outside the bounds of the sovereign states
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What are the four waves of terrorism so far?
Anarchist, anti-colonialist, new left and religious
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Why did most realists oppose the Iraq war?
It was not in US interests
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What is the liberal view of the Iraq war?
Most feel their ideas were misused to justify the war
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How did constructivists view the Iraq war?
Various responses
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