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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.

  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...

A book review- Forensic Psychology, A very short Introduction by David Canter.

David Canter is Emeritus Professor of Applied social psychology at the university of Liverpool. He was also the creator of Investigative psychology. David Canter specialises in Environmental psychology, offender profiling and Forensic Psychology. After having read- Forensic psychology, a very short introduction, I was introduced to new concepts and a much clearer understanding of the role that forensic psychologists play in murder investigations. The book details, the court procedures in gaining a conviction for murder cases, additionally it also establishes the fundamental role of forensics, which arguably is to collect scientific evidence and to establish what is and isn’t there to either prove someone’s guilt or innocence in the context of the courtroom. Chapter two titled ‘how to make a criminal’   details physical and biological traits which have been used to construct a psychopath and murderer, this is for forensic psychologists to use as a stepping ladder to streng...