New York City, September 11, 2001

 

PO 335: THE POLITICS OF TERRORISM

SPRING 2008

Syllabi:

PO 335-01: The Politics of Terrorism (T R 8:00-9:15)
 

PO 335-02: The Politics of Terrorism (T R 9:25-10:40)

PO 335-03: The Politics of Terrorism (T R 1:15-2:30)

 

Selected WWW Resources:

U.S. State Department Designation of Foreign Terrorist Groups (1999)

Washington Post Terrorist Attack Map and Database

Terrorism Research Center (TRC) Home Page

Course Documents:

Accessing Course Documents on Electronic Reserve
 
 
 

***Announcements*** 

Additional Groups for Term Paper:

335-01: NONE

335-02: East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM); Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)

335-03: Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group

 

Course Lectures:

Module 1: Theory and Terrorism
Module 2. The Spectrum of Political Violence: Terrorism as the "Weapon of the Weak"
Module 3. Terrorism Defined
Module 4.Who Becomes a Terrorist? Instrumental and Psychological Explanations
Module 5. Terrorist Groups, Strategies, and Tactics: Intro, Typology and Separatist/Irredentist Terrorism
Module 6. Terrorist Groups, Strategies, and Tactics: Religious Terrorism
Module 7: The Tactic of Suicide Terrorism
Module 8. Terrorist Strategy Tactics, and the Mass Media: Feeding on Freedom
Module 9. Counterterrorism
Module 10. Algerian Terrorism Against France, 1954-1962
Module 11. The Zionist Irgun and the British in Palestine, 1945-1948
Module 12. Radical Islamic Terrorists and the United States in the 21st Century

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