TERRORISM, INSURGENCY AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE
GRADO EN ESTUDIOS GLOBALES/GLOBAL STUDIES
Curso 2021/2022
1. Subject Information
(Date last modified: 02-06-21 11:24)- Code
- 109035
- Plan
- 290
- ECTS
- 4.00
- Type
- Opcional
- Year
- 3
- Duration
- Second semester
- Area
- CIENCIA POLÍTICA Y DE LA ADMINISTRACIÓN
- Departament
- Derecho Público General
- Virtual platform
Professor Information
- Profesor/Profesora
- Elena María Gil Moreno
- Group/s
- Único
- Centre
- Fac. Derecho
- Office
- Espacio ACPA, Planta Jardín
- Office hours
- -
- Web address
- https://acpa-usal.com/member/dra-elena-gil-moreno/
- elenagm@usal.es
- Telephone
- 923 29 44 00 - Ext. 1617
2. Association of the subject matter within the study plan
Curricular area to which the subject matter pertains.
Political Science
Purpose of the subject within the curricular area and study plan.
Elective, political behavior
Professional profile.
Political Science
3. Prerequisites
-
4. Learning objectives
-
5. Contents
Theory.
Radicalization and recruitment to terrorist gropus
Theories on causes of terrorism and political violence
Counter-terrorist challenges
Actor types
Political violence and world religions
Strategies and tactics
Issues in modern terrorism and political violence
6. Competences acquired
Basic / General.
CB2, CB3, CB4 CG1, CG2, CG4
Specific.
CE2, CE15, CE20
7. Teaching methods
Lecture, Seminars, Debates, practical assignments
8. Anticipated distribution of the use of the different teaching methods
9. Resources
Reference books.
- White, J. (2002). Terrorism: An Introduction. 4th ed. Belmont: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning
- Hoffman, B. (2006) Inside Terrorism, Revised Edition. (New York: Columbia University Press)
- Shapiro, J. N. a. (2013). The terrorist's dilemma: managing violent covert organizations. (Princeton´, NJ.: Princeton University Press).
- Brown, M.E. et al (2010) Contending with Terrorism: Roots, Strategies, and Responses. (Boston: The MIT Press)
- Koppel, T. (2015) Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath (New York: Crown/Penguin/Random House).
- Hoffman, B. e., & Reinares, F. e. (2014). The evolution of the global terrorist threat : from 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's death. New York: Columbia University Press.
- John Mueller, The Atomic Terrorist, CATO Institute. January 2010.
- Anthony Richards, Conceptualizing Terrorism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 23-65 and pp. 114-126.
- Charles Tilly, The Politics of Collective Violence, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
- David Apter, ed., The Legitimization of Violence, (New York: new York University Press, 1997)
- Sophie Body-Gendrot and Pieter Spierenburg, eds.,Violence in Europe, (Rotterdam: Erasmus University, 2010)
10. Assessment
Assessment tools.
- Assignments 40%
- Theoretical assesment tasks 60%
Guidelines in the case of failing the subject.
Evaluation tools will be the same.