Counterterrorism: Implicatons for Identity Politics
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Counterterrorism: Implicatons for Identity Politics
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Self-Determination Crisis Watch 28 September 2001 Vol. 1, No. 15
Editor: Tom Barry
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Table of Contents
*** CENTRAL ASIA: ON PERIPHERY OF NEW GLOBAL WAR ***
By Abid Aslam
*** TERRIBLE TRADE-OFFS ***
By Jim Lobe and Abid Aslam
*** IRIAN JAYA: SPECIAL AUTONOMY AND HEAVY MILITARY HAND ***
By Abid Aslam
*** OTHER RELATED SELF-DETERMINATION AND CONFLICT ISSUES FROM FPIF ***
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(Editor's Note: The foreign policy paradigm of counterterrorism has
grave implications for dissident politics of any kind, especially in
countries and regions where there is Islamic militancy. The new global
politics of counterterrorism lends support for those regimes who think
of governance more in terms of establishing or reestablishing
"national security states" - the cold war concept of having
authoritarian states that repressed left-leaning popular movements,
self-determination struggles, and revolutionary guerrilla insurgencies
- rather than in terms of pluralistic, democratic societies. The
terrorist attacks have dealt a major setback to legitimate governance
demands based on ethnic and religious identities. In the immediate
future, governments that repress ethno- and religious-political
movements in the name of counterterrorism - in Russia, Central Asia,
China, Indonesia, Sudan, Kenya, etc. - will be able to do so with a
relatively free hand. In this issue of Self-Determination and Conflict
Watch, we offer new FPIF analysis that addresses these issues.)
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