Date Thesis Awarded
5-2008
Access Type
Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only
Degree Name
Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Department
International Relations
Advisor
Clay Clemens
Committee Members
Hiroshi Kitamura
Dennis A. Smith
Abstract
Since September 11, 2001, many liberal democracies around the world face the threat of jihadi terrorism. Countries have been forced to react to this menace. Policymakers almost universally describe this reaction in terms of striking a new "balance" between rights and security, in favor of security. The goal of this study is to discover whether liberal democracies with extensive previous counterterrorism experience demonstrate greater restraint in their policy reaction to international jihadi terror following 11 September 2001 than those without such experience. I hypothesize that those liberal democracies with significant previous experience combating terrorism will have a smaller deviation from the counterterrorism equilibrium that existed as of 9/11 than those without such experience. In order to test this hypothesis, I look at the cases of the United Kingdom, Spain, the United States, and Australia.
Recommended Citation
Woolslayer, Michael, "Confronting Jihad: Past Experience and Counterterrorism Since September 11" (2008). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 800.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/800
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Comments
Thesis is part of Honors ETD pilot project, 2008-2013. Migrated from Dspace in 2016.