PAKISTAN’S COUNTERTERRORISM STRATEGY: A CRITICAL OVERVIEW

Obama’s Counterterrorism Policy and the Washington Post’s Editorials: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Media-State Interaction

American mass media’s relation with the US government in foreign policy decision-making has been the subject of numerous studies in the interdisciplinary field of political communication. This paper reexamines the interaction between the media and the government in the US foreign policy decision-making process, analyzing the possible congruity and/or incongruity between The Washington Post...

A critical overview

The current consensus position in psychiatry and psychology is that, in addition to environmental factors, genes play an important role in causing psychiatric disorders and variation in ‘‘continuously distributed’’ psychological traits (such as personality and IQ). The fields of psychiatric genetics and behavior genetics have produced much of the research supporting this position, which consist...

Angiogenesis assays: a critical overview.

BACKGROUND Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, is an integral part of both normal developmental processes and numerous pathologies, ranging from tumor growth and metastasis to inflammation and ocular disease. Angiogenesis assays are used to test efficacy of both pro- and antiangiogenic agents. METHODS Most studies of angiogenesis inducers and inhibitors rely on various models, b...

A TIME TO KILL: WHEN IS LEADERSHIP TARGETING AN EFFECTIVE COUNTERTERRORISM STRATEGY by

Camera Surveillance as a Measure of Counterterrorism?

Camera surveillance has recently gained prominence in policy proposals on combating terrorism. We evaluate this instrument of counterterrorism as resting on the premise of a deterrence effect. Based on comparative arguments and previous evidence on crime, we expect camera surveillance to have a relatively smaller deterrent effect on terrorism than on other forms of crime. In particular, we emph...