POS 346446 PADM 446: Counterterrorism and Human Rights 0911

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POS 346/446 - PADM 446 Counterterrorism and
Human Rights 09/11

• Course website.
• Class Agenda
• Distribution of paper assignment 1 and
  presentation assignment.
• Insurgency/Terrorism/Guerrilla.
• Human Rights Impact of 9/11.
• US Domestic Surveillance Case Study.
• Discussion questions
• What are the different definitions of terrorism,
  counterterrorism, and human rights proposed, or
  used, by each author? Are these definitions
  objective or clouded by ideology or methodology?
• Discussion of concepts introduced by the
  readings.
• Art and Richardson.
• Tsang.
• Landman.

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• Terrorism versus Insurgency versus Guerrilla (US
  DOD).
• Terrorism - the calculated use of violence or
  threat of violence to inculcate fear intended to
  coerce or to intimidate governments or societies
  in the pursuit of goals that are generally
  political, religious, or ideological.
• Insurgency - an organized resistance movement
  that uses
• subversion, sabotage, and armed conflict to
  achieve its aims. Insurgencies normally seek to
  overthrow the existing social order and
  reallocate power within the country.
• Goals
• (1) Overthrow an established government without a
  follow-on social revolution.
• (2) Establish an autonomous national territory
  within the borders of a state.
• (3) Cause the withdrawal of an occupying power.
• (4) Extract political concessions that are
  unattainable through less violent means
• Guerrilla overt military aspect of the
  insurgency.

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• Human Rights Impact 9/11.
• Domestic
• Increased screening and surveillance.
• Frontline Spying on the Homefront.
• USA PATRIOT Act and Terrorist Surveillance
  Program, airport screening, watchlists.
• Misuse of immigration laws for extended detention
  w/o due process.
• Military commissions.
• Guantanamo enemy combatants.
• Foreign
• Invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq.
• Rendition black sites.
• Torture.
• Use of cluster munitions.
• Military assistance to regimes with poor human
  rights records.

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• Discussion Questions for next week 09/18
• Was the Italian governments counterterrorism
  campaign against BR effective? Why or why not?
• Why is the terrain of human rights mapped by
  Landman so complex?