Political Science

Elective, political behavior

Political Science

Introduction: Political Violence, Theoretical Approaches

Terrorism 1: International and Domestic Terrorism, Stages of Terrorism and Discussion about the Concept of Terrorism

Terrorism 2: Radicalization and Recruitment to Terrorist Groups, Terrorism Databases and Cyberterrorism

Insurgencies: Actor Types, Strategies and Tactics, the Cold War

State Violence: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism strategies, Actor Types, and the Political Terror Scale

Criminal Governance: The Mafia and Narco-governments

Case studies

CB2, CB3, CB4 CG1, CG2, CG4

 CE2, CE15, CE20

• Alonso, R. et al. (2008). Radicalization Processes Leading to Acts of Terrorism, European Commission
• Apter, D. (1997). The legitimization of violence. NYU Press.
• Body-Gendrot, S., & Spierenburg, P. (Eds.). (2008). Violence in Europe. Springer-Verlag New York.
• Brown, M. E., Cote Jr, O. R., Lynn-Jones, S. M., & Miller, S. E. (Eds.). (2010). Contending with Terrorism: Roots, strategies, and responses. MIT Press.
• Calle, L., & Sánchez-Cuenca, I. (2011). What we talk about when we talk about terrorism. Politics & Society, 39(3), 451-472.
• Cockburn, P. (2016). Chaos & Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East, ‎ Or Books Llc
• Grajales, J. (2013). State Involvement, Land Grabbing and Counter-Insurgency in Colombia (Development and Change), 44(2) pp 211-232
• Hoffman, B. (2018). Inside terrorism. In Inside Terrorism. Columbia University Press.
• Hoffman, B., & Reinares, F. (Eds.). (2014). The evolution of the global terrorist threat: From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's death. Columbia University Press.
• Johnston, J. (2000). Pedagogical guerrillas, armed democrats, and revolutionary counterpublics: Examining paradox in the Zapatista unprising in Chiapas Mexico. Theory and Society, 29(4), 463-505
• Koppel, T. (2015). Lights out: a cyberattack, a nation unprepared, surviving the aftermath. Broadway Books.
• Lessing, B. (2021). Conceptualizing criminal governance. Perspectives on Politics, 19(3), 854-873
• López, T. M. (2018). Terrorismo y comportamiento político: España y el caso de ETA, Doctoral dissertation, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
• McMahon, Robert J. (2003). The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press
• Mueller, J. (2008). The Atomic Terrorist: Assessing the Likelihood. prepared for presentation at the Program on International Security Policy, University of Chicago, 15.
• National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (2020). Global Terrorism Index 2020, Institute for Economics and Peace
• Richards, A. (2014). Conceptualizing terrorism. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 37(3), 213-236.
• Sánchez-Cuenca, I., & De la Calle, L. (2009). Domestic terrorism: The hidden side of political violence. Annual Review of Political Science, 12, 31-49.
• Shapiro, J. N. (2013). The terrorist's dilemma. In The Terrorist's Dilemma. Princeton University Press.
• Tilly, C. (2003) The Politics of Collective Violence. New York: Cambridge University Press
• Trejo, G., & Ley, S. (2018). Why did drug cartels go to war in Mexico? Subnational party alternation, the breakdown of criminal protection, and the onset of large-scale violence. Comparative Political Studies, 51(7), 900-937.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2012). The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes, United Nations
• US Government (2012). Guide to the Analysis of Insurgency, US Government
• White, J. R., & Clear, T. (2002). Terrorism: an introduction. Stanford, CA: Wadsworth Thomson Learning

• Assignments 40%
• Theoretical assesment tasks 60%

Evaluation tools will be the same.