9/11 and Terrorism

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This paper serves as a dissertation proposal. The paper discusses the aim of the proposed dissertation as being to examine the history of terrorism and the events leading to the terrorist acts of 9/11. The paper further discusses how the dissertation will also scrutinize the National Response Plan (Department of Homeland Security, 2004). The paper concludes with the use of a triangle to better explain the goal of the proposed dissertation.

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"Although the caveat of the NRP is the 'framework for the management of domestic incidents', the acceptance of this framework by the signatory agencies does not only mean 'paying lip service' to the plan but rather adopting the plan and institutionalising the plan in each respective department or agency. In looking at the NRP being either an all-encompassing instrument of change or merely an addendum to domestic and foreign policies, the dissertation will relate this hypothesis in the grand strategy of the United States. Biddle speaks about the 'grand strategy' as integrating 'military, political, and economic means to pursue states' ultimate objectives in the international system. American grand strategy had been in a state of flux prior to 2001, as containment of the Soviet Union gave way to a wider range of apparently lesser challenges. The 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade towers, however, transformed the grand strategy debate and led to a sweeping reevaluation of American security policy. It may still be too early to expect this reevaluation to have produced a complete or final response to 9/11 - policies as complex as national grand strategy do not change overnight (2005, p. v)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Department of Homeland Security 2004, National incident management system - March 1, 2004, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D.C.
• Department of Homeland Security 2004, National response plan - December 2004, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D.C.
• Knopf, J.W. 2002, 'Misapplied lessons? 9/11 and the Iraq debate', The Nonproliferation Review, Fall-Winter 2002, pp. 47-66, viewed 24 Apr 2006, http://cns.miis.edu/
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States 2004, The 9/11 commission report July 22, 2004, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Washington, D.C.
• Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 2002, House Resolution 5005 - homeland security act of 2002, Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, Washington, D.C.

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