Terrorism and Security IRL3516 L, Niyazbekov Nurseit

1. According to Conrad et al., why do military institutions—particularly in democracies—exhibit a higher propensity to use torture in response to transnational rather than domestic terrorism?

2. Conrad et al. find that democratic regimes are more likely to increase military torture following transnational terrorist attacks. How does this finding challenge the traditional assumption in human rights scholarship about democracy and repression?

3. What is the difference in torturing criminals and terrorists when it comes to extracting intelligence?

4. How did the “War on Terror” reshape the global tolerance for state violence? Has it institutionalized forms of state terrorism?

5. Does the case of Chinese 're-education' camps represent an example of state terrorism? Elaborate. 

6. What are the nuances which surround the definition of 'state terrorism'?