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  Disposable Land Sources and Collateral Murder. Understanding foreign policy over the Middle East through the lens of Orientalism and the Security Dilemma.   Liam Miles  - Liam.miles@mail.bcu.ac.uk  Eliska Duskova  Introduction   This Article will merge the Security Dilemma with Edward Said’s 1978 notion of Orientalism, as a method of explaining the rationale behind Western and Eastern Foreign Policy over the Middle East which as argued in this Article has seen the Middle East become a disposable land source for the advancement of Capitalism and Geopolitical Power and Control.    In its simplest form, the security dilemma is an embodiment of political science, which explains the dilemma between decisions taken by a state to strengthen its own security. These actions however, run the risk of provoking other or rival states to act, which in turn inevitably leads to a decrease in the original state of security for the original state, thus produ...

On the 11 th September 2001, two American airliners plummeted into the world trade centre towers, causing the towers to fall and over 3,000 lives to be lost. The series of events was described by Peter Dale Scott, author of ‘the road to 9/11, as being the worst case of homicide in all of America’s history. This statement cannot be argued against, there were over 3000 lives lost on the day of 9/11, which devastated families, communities and the world. However, there are many questions which can be raised as to the perpetrators of this act of terror, and what fuelled the attacks of 9/11 to take place in the first instance? Since the advent of 9/11, the world as we know it had drastically changed. The theory and practise of security both on a national and local level has arguably become tighter, we are now living in a society which favours suspicion, surveillance and monitoring of those who we believe pose a threat to our society and our way of life. These are usually presumptuous an...

After having previously read ‘Terrorist Hunter’ written by Tamer Elnoury, it left me feeling even more intrigued as to what defines terrorism in a modern global political era, how can terrorism be even possibly defeated, and what factors attracts individuals to wage war on the West? These questions were answered by Aimen Dean, who has now written a book titled – ‘Nine lives. The book goes into fascinating detail about Aimen’s story having signed up to wage Jihad in the 1980s in Bosnia, with the original intentions of liberating Bosnian Muslims, who were being persecuted by the Serbs in a mass genocide. Aimen as a young boy fell under the spell of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. He declared an oath of allegiance and loyalty to Bin Laden; however, he soon came to realise that Al-Qaeda was not about liberation and freeing persecuted Muslims, it was however about waging war against the United States and encouraging as well as plotting the murder of innocent civilians. He eventually wante...