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POS 339/439 10/03/2007

• Course status
• Research paper description assignment due today.
• Returned via e-mail no later than next Wednesday
  5pm, likely substantially earlier.
• Midterm exam review guide distributed/discussed
  at the end of class.
• Posted on course website later this evening.
• Next Week.
• Battle of Algiers.
• Midterm - October 17th.
• 600 830 exam averages about hour and a
  half.
• Bring at least one blue book do not put name on
  blue book, they will be exchanged in class.

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• Class agenda.
• Research sources.
• Hersh New Yorker article (October 8, 2007 print).
• Shifting Targets The Administrations plan for
  Iran.
• US Army TRADOC terrorism manual (August 2007).
• A Military Guide to Terrorism in the Twenty-First
  Century.
• University of Maryland.
• Center for International Development and Conflict
  Management (CICDM).
• National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism
  and Responses to Terror (START).
• Global Terrorism Database (GTD).
• Lecture/discussion.
• Video Case
• Tamil Tigers.
• Distribution of Midterm Exam review guide.

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• Nuclear Weapons and Terrorism.
• Nuclear Information Project. 2006. Status .

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• Nuclear Weapons and Terrorism.
• Nuclear Information Project. 2006. Status .
  Stockpiles Graph.

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• Nuclear Weapons and Terrorism.
• Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization
  (CTBTO).
• IAEA
• World Map of Nuclear Research Reactors.
• International Nuclear Safety Center (US. ANL.)
• World Map of Nuclear Reactors.
• National Resources Defense Council.
• Nuclear Weapons Information.
• Nuclear Information Project.
• Federation of American Scientists (FAS).
• Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century.
• Nuclear Blast Effects Calculator.
• Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
• Nuclear 9/11? Sept/Oct 2006 Issue.
• Nuclear Terrorism - Imminent or Inflated Threat
  Center for Defense Information.

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• Terrorism
• Generalizable Theories.
• Levels of analysis.
• Macro, Meso, Micro.
• Actors.
• Structure vs. Agency, Temporality.
• Motivations.
• Cases (individual, small n, large n).
• Definitions Matter.
• Definitions govern perception.
• Perceptions determines what counts as
  terrorism.
• Counting of terrorism leads to conclusions about
  trends.
• These conclusions may be misleading.
• Politicalization of estimation.

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• Terrorism and Internal War/Violence.
• Gurr, Ted Robert, Monty G. Marshall, and Joseph.
  2007. Peace and conflict, 2008 - A Global Survey
  of Armed Conflicts, Self-Determination Movements,
  and Democracy. Center for International
  Development and Conflict Management.
• Most recent update to project examining 161
  countries from 1950 until 2005, with some data
  more current, or near future forecast.
• Chapter 3 Global trends in international
  conflict.
• Chapter 4 Global trends in democratization.
• Chapter 8 Genocides and Politicides.

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• Gurr, Marshall, Hewitt. 2007. Peace and conflict,
  2008.

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• Gurr, Marshall, Hewitt. 2007. Peace and conflict,
  2008.

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• Gurr, Marshall, Hewitt. 2007. Peace and conflict,
  2008.

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• Gurr, Marshall, Hewitt. 2007. Peace and conflict,
  2008.

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• Gurr, Marshall, Hewitt. 2007. Peace and conflict,
  2008.

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• Hewitt Chapter 4.

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• Hewitt Chapter 4.

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• Hewitt Chapter 4.

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• Hewitt Chapter 4.

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Martin, Chap. 5.

• Dissident Terrorist paradigm.
• Revolutionary terrorism.
• Overthrow/revolutionary change.
• Subrevolutionary terrorism.
• Reform, not complete overthrow.
• Establishment terrorism.
• Preservation of status quo against
  internal/external opposition.
• Dissident terrorism.
• Revolutionary dissident.
• Nihilist dissident.
• Nationalist dissident.
• Criminal Dissident.

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Martin, Chap. 5.

• Video Case.
• Tamil Tigers.
• PBS Avoiding Armageddon (2003).
• Discussion Box Questions.
• Is terrorism a legitimate tactic in a war for
  national independence?
• When a cause is considered just, is it acceptable
  to use propaganda to demonize the enemy?
• Is suicidal resistance fanatical and irrational,
  or is it a higher form of commitment to ones
  struggle for freedom?
• When a cause is just, are arms smuggling and drug
  trafficking acceptable options for raising funds?
• Are the Tamil Tigers terrorists or freedom
  fighters?

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• Battle of Algiers.
• Director, Gillo Pontecorvo, former Italian
  partisan, Communist Party member.
• Film is docudrama, with great historical
  accuracy.
• Filmed in Algeria, some FLN insurgents/terrorists
  involved in film.
• War in Algeria combined urban terrorism/counterter
  rorism with rural insurgency/counterinsurgency.
• War in countryside discussed by some as first
  helicopter war.
• DeGaulle to power in 1958, gradually moves to
  support independence for Algeria.
• Secular regime installed during independence.
• Elections in 1991 first multiparty elections.
• 1992 Military Coup to keep Islamic party from
  controlling country.
• Violent conflict on-going 1992-1998 75,000 dead,
  20,000 disappeared.

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• FLN and French Counterinsurgency.Consequences
• France.
• Crisis strengthened De Gaulles power.
• War crimes/human rights abuses.
• Algeria.
• Elections in 1991 first multiparty elections.
• 1992 Military Coup to keep Islamic party from
  controlling country.
• Violent conflict on-going 1992-1998 75,000 dead,
  20,000 disappeared.
• Islamist insurgency and Algerian
  counterinsurgency, human rights abuses.
• Director passed away October 2006.
• International Herald Tribune Obituary.

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• Next Week 10/10/2007 Battle of Algiers.
• Paper descriptions returned.
• Midterm exam discussed.
• Discussion Box Questions p. 418-419.