POS 346446 PADM 446: Counterterrorism and Human Rights 0925

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POS 346/446 - PADM 446 Counterterrorism and
Human Rights 09/25

• Course website.
• Class Agenda
• Due this evening
• Paper assignment 1
• Presentation assignment.
• Discussion questions
• Was the British governments counterterrorism
  campaign against the IRA effective? Why or why
  not?
• Video Case Northern Ireland Uneasy Peace 2006.
• Which theoretical approach (rationalist,
  structuralist, culturalist) discussed by Landman
  appeals to you the most or is a combination of
  theoretical approaches necessary to understand
  human rights??
• Discussion of concepts introduced by the
  readings.
• Richardson.
• Landman.

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• Richardson Britain and the IRA.
• United Kingdom very experienced with
  counterinsurgency and counterterrorism.
• Faced many of the same dilemmas as the United
  States.
• Provisional IRA 1970 until 2005, 35 years.
• British decolonization and counterinsurgency
  (COIN) warfare experience.
• Army policy.
• Political primacy and political aim.
• Coordination of government machinery.
• Obtaining intelligence and information.
• Separating the insurgent from his support.
• Neutralizing the insurgent.
• Long-term post insurgency planning.
• British Army faced the emergence of civil rights
  movement in Northern Ireland in 1968, provisional
  wing of IRA rises out of that turmoil.

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• Discussion Questions for next week October 2nd.
• What are the major difficulties of oversight of
  the intelligence services of the United States
  and United Kingdom?
• What are similarities and differences in the
  oversight of intelligence services in the United
  States and United Kingdom?