| Course Documents | Syllabus |
Class Notes |
Course Introduction Historical Overview |
| Week |
Dates |
Topic |
Readings |
| 1 |
First Posts: March 21-24 Assignment and Responses: March 24-26 |
What is Terrorism? |
Watch Video: "Course Introduction" Watch Video: “Historical Overview” Read: Miller: Chapters 1-2, Smelser (On Blackboard) Exercise 1: Defining Terrorism (On Blackboard) |
| 2 |
First Posts: March 28-29 Responses: March 30- April 1 |
Typologies of Terrorism |
Reinares (Bjørgo), Heitmeyer (Bjørgo), Ahmed (Bjørgo), Waldmann (Bjørgo), Stohl (Bjørgo) |
| 3 |
First Posts: April 4-5 Responses: April 6-8 |
Is Terror Rational? |
Gupta (Bjørgo), Merari (Bjørgo), Enders and Sandler: Chapters 3-4 (On Blackboard) Watch Video: Game Theory and Terrorism |
| 4 |
First Posts: April 11-12 Assignment and Responses: April 13-15 |
Root Causes of Terrorism |
Mohammad (Bjørgo), Post (Bjørgo), Malecková (Bjørgo), Kaarthikeyan (Bjørgo), Osama bin Laden’s 1998 Fatwa (Online), Bjørgo--Conclusion (Bjørgo) Watch Video: Weather Underground (On Blackboard) Exercise 2: Religious Texts and Terror (On Blackboard) |
| 5 |
First Posts: April 18-19 Responses: April 20-22 |
Political Violence: Morality and Consequences |
Jones and Olken (Online), Pogge (On Blackboard), Miller: Chapters 3 and 6 Watch Video: Children of Beslan (On Blackboard) |
| 6 |
First Posts: April 25-26 Responses: April 27-29 |
9/11: Lessons, Responses, and a Prediction |
9/11 Report: ALL, Arquilla (Online) |
| 7 |
First Posts: May 2-3 Responses: May 4-6 |
Counter-Terror Strategies: Terrorism as Crime or War? |
Schmid (Bjørgo), Richardson (Bjørgo), Sinai (Bjørgo), Pruitt (On Blackboard), Silke (Bjørgo), Miller: Chapters 4-5 Exercise 3: State-Sponsored Terror? (On Blackboard) |
| 8 | Take between May 9 and May 12! |
Final Exam |
Review all of your notes, together with the exam preview. |