134 research outputs found
International terrorism post-9/11:Comparative dynamics and responses
No full textThis edited volume brings together both western and non-western approaches to counter-terrorism in the post-9/11 era. This multi-cultural study of counter-terrorism strategies identifies common lessons from failed and successful attempts to counter the terrorist threat and provides guidelines for an effective counter-terrorism strategy. The book explores the changing dynamics of terrorism from a range of perspectives - from the global threat posed by home-grown terrorism in North Africa and the larger security dimensions in the Middle East, to the various strategies employed by western and non-western societies in their efforts to develop effective counter-terrorism strategies. Core themes in the book include the divergent dynamics of the phenomena categorised under the 'terrorism' label, and the domestic, national and regional variants of international terrorism. As such, the book offers in-depth analysis of the relationship between the local and the global, both in the root causes of, and responses to, terrorism since 9/11. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and political violence, security studies and IR.</p
Nixon, Kissinger and U.S. Foreign Policy:the Machinery of Crisis
No full textNixon, Kissinger, and U.S. Foreign Policy Making examines for the first time the important role of crisis management in the making of U.S. foreign policy during the Nixon-Kissinger years. The book offers a critical account of the manner in which the president and his national security advisor - notorious for their tight grip on the machinery of US foreign policy - dominated the structures and processes of foreign policy making. By drawing on a wealth of previously classified documents, Asaf Siniver reveals the story of the Washington Special Actions Group (WSAG), which managed foreign policy crises in the Nixon administration. In this thoroughly researched account of the performance of Nixon, Kissinger and the WSAG in four international crises, Siniver provides a fresh analysis of the important relationship among structures, processes and personalities in the making of U.S. foreign policy during international crises
The International Arbitration of Territorial Disputes
No full textAsaf Siniver provides a systematic and comparative analysis of the role of international arbitration in the settlement of interstate territorial disputes. He engages with International Relations (IR) and International Law (IL) scholarships to locate the unique characteristics of arbitration as a legal method of dispute settlement, distinct from the other legal method of adjudication ('judicial settlement') and diplomatic methods such as negotiation and mediation.A novel framework examines both political and legal dimensions to analyse (i) under what conditions states are more likely to pursue a legal settlement of their territorial dispute via arbitration as opposed to the more popular diplomatic method of mediation, and (ii) what explains compliance with, or defiance of international law in such cases. In so doing, the author sets to reclaim the sui generis nature of arbitration as a unique legal-political method which enables the disputants to maintain the considerable flexibility and autonomy often found in mediation, whilst providing the same final and legally binding solution that adjudication offers.Exploring a wide range of primary sources, including interviews, archival research, and official documents, and employing qualitative research methods, Siniver applies the analytical framework to four contemporary cases of international arbitration: the arbitration over the Rann of Kutch between India and Pakistan (1966-68); the Beagle Channel arbitration between Chile and Argentina (1971-77), the Taba arbitration between Egypt and Israel (1986-88), and the South China Sea arbitration between The Philippines and China (2013-16)
Australian identity, interventionism and the War on Terror
No full textThis chapter examines Australia’s participation in military intervention in the ‘war on terror’ and the role of the politics of identity. Like the Bush administration in the US, the Australian Government under conservative Prime Minister John Howard was consistently willing to suggest that the age of ‘war’ post-2001 necessitated new domestic ministries and agencies; new legislation (from police powers to periods of detention and ease of movement in and out of the country); and new forms of public participation in security governance. All of these were crucial components of Australia’s ‘war on terror’. In this chapter, however, we focus specifically on Australian interventionism in the ‘war on terror’: the policy and practice of involvement in military incursions beyond the borders of the Australian state as a means of redressing the threat posed by fundamentalist Islamic terrorism. We examine the reasons given for Australian participation in Afghanistan and Iraq as part of this ‘war on terror’, while also analysing Australia’s military interventionism in the immediate region, most prominently its mission in the Solomon Islands in 2003. We argue that understanding Australian military intervention in the ‘war on terror’ requires taking account of the important role of identity in underpinning the Government’s conception of security and providing a resource for the Government to justify intervention to the Australian people
American Counter-Terrorism through the Rewards for Justice Program, 1984-2009
No full textAn examination of the "Rewards for Justice Program," an effort that began with the Reagan administration but which escalated in the post-9-11 period
The Palestinians and Arab-Israeli Diplomacy, 1967-1991
Get PDFConsidering the Palestinian role in Arab-Israeli diplomacy from 1967 until the formal onset of the “peace process” in the early 1990s, this chapter highlights the central paradox in a longstanding struggle for recognition. Just as Palestinians were gaining international attention as a political question requiring a diplomatic solution – marked by acceptance of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Europe, the United States, and eventually Israel – on the ground, the possibility of a resolution in territorial terms was narrowing considerably. As Palestinians successfully organized around a unified political message of independent statehood in the 1970s, the possible space in which their national home could be built was fast disappearing under Israeli sovereignty. The political consequences of Egyptian-Israeli peace, coupled with the PLO’s expulsion from Lebanon, shifted the Palestinian struggle to the occupied territories as diplomatic efforts yielded limited political rights. This left a national movement disconnected from the successful fulfilment of its statist project, a challenge that continues to shape the Palestinian struggle
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