[LJ] Terrorism talk on 21 Aug

Resisting the Temptation of Military Force: Non-Military Strategies to Manage Global Risks in the Other War on Terror

> Speaker: Mr. Yee-Kuang Heng (Lecturer inInternational Relations & Research Fellow, Centre for the Study ofTerrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), School of InternationalRelations, University of St. Andrews, U.K.)

> Date: Thursday, 21 August 2008

> Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m

> Venue: Seminar Room 3-5, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772

> Synopsis: Critics of American unilateralism and its predominant focus on ‘hard’ military force tend to overlook multilateral practices that have emerged to combat global terrorism. These have unfortunately gone largely unnoticed, quietly slipping under the radar screen of both public opinion and academic scrutiny. President Bush’s address to the Joint Session of Congress on 20 September 2001 made clear that his war on terror would include dramatic ‘hard’ military strikes which have inevitably garnered the lion’s share of attention, but other initiatives would be less publicised, ‘secret even in success’. This paper seeks to address this imbalance by examining some less noticed cooperative ‘soft’ initiatives against global terror, and reflecting on the implications for International Relations theory, in particular risk and security studies.

Anyone wanna go? Tag or tell me personally.