• E4J University Module Series: Counter-Terrorism

• Module 1: Introduction to International Terrorism

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • A brief history of terrorism
  • Terrorism in the 19 ^th century
  • The League of Nations and terrorism
  • The United Nations and terrorism
  • Terrorist victimization: victims of terrorism

• Exercises and case studies

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

• References

 

Published in June 2018.

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers   

 

Core reading

 

This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

Terrorism

• Rapoport, David C. (2004). "The four waves of modern terrorism." In Attacking terrorism: elements of a grand strategy, Audrey Kurth Cronin, James M. Ludes, eds. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
• Parker, Tom, and Nick Sitter (2016). " The Four Horsemen of Terrorism: It's Not Waves, It's Strains." Terrorism and Political Violence, vol. 28, issue 2, pp. 197-216.
• Lorca, Arnulf B. (2014). " Petitioning the International: A 'Pre-history' of Self-Determination." European Journal of International Law, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 497-523.
• Laing, Edward A. (1993). " The Norm of Self-Determination, 1941-1991." California Western International Law Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 209-308.
• Wright, Quincy (1960). " Subversive Intervention." American Journal of International Law, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 521-535.
• Wood, Graeme (2015). " What ISIS Really Wants." The Atlantic, March 2015.
• LaFree, Gary, Nancy A. Morris, and Laura Dugan (2010). " Cross-national patterns of terrorism: comparing trajectories for total, attributed and fatal attacks, 1970-2006." British Journal of Criminology, vol. 50, pp. 622-649.
• Institute for Economics and Peace (2017). Global Terrorism Index 2017.

 

Terrorist victimization

• Schmid, Alex (2006). " Magnitudes and Focus of Terrorist Victimization." In Large-Scale Victimisation as a Potential Source of Terrorist Activities, Uwe Ewald and Ksenija Turkovic, eds.. Amsterdam: IOS Press.
• Turkovic, Ksenija (2006). " What Victimology has to Offer in the Fight Against Terrorism." In Large-Scale Victimisation as a Potential Source of Terrorist Activities, Uwe Ewald and Ksenija Turkovic, eds. Amsterdam: IOS Press.
• Šeparovic, Zvonimir P. (2006). " International Terrorism: Large-Scale Victimization' Terrorism." In Large-Scale Victimisation as a Potential Source of Terrorist Activities, Uwe Ewald and Ksenija Turkovic, eds. Amsterdam: IOS Press.
• Erez, Edna (2006). " Protracted War, Terrorism and Mass Victimization: Exploring Victimological/Criminological Concepts and Theories to Address Victimization in Israel." In Large-Scale Victimisation as a Potential Source of Terrorist Activities, Uwe Ewald and Ksenija Turkovic, eds. Amsterdam: IOS Press.

 

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