Faculty of Arts


Week 12 w/c 18 October

9/11 & Terrorism

Lecture:

Thursday 20 October: Terrorism

Lecturers:

Greg Bankoff

Seminar Topic:

Thursday 20 October & Wednesday 26 October:

Terrorism is a legitimate weapon of the repressed and downtrodden?

Why does the world hate the USA?

Required Readings:

Barber, Benjamin (1995) ‘Introduction 2001’. Jihad vs. McWorld Terrorism’s Challenge to Democracy. Ballantine Books, New York, pp.xi-xxxi. ISBN 0812923502

Freedman, Lawrence (2002) ‘A New Type of War’. In Ken Booth and Tim Dunne (eds) Worlds in Collision Terror and the Future of Global Order. Palgrave, Basingstoke pp.37-47. ISBN 0333998057

Chua, Amy (2003) ‘Why They hate Us.’ World on Fire How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability. Anchor Books, New York, pp229-258. ISBN 0385721862

‘Bin Laden’s Statement’ (2001) Translation supplied by the Associated Press Sunday October 7, 2001:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,565069,00.html

Radi, Lami (2001) ‘Bulls-eye Say Egyptians as they celebrate anti-US attacks’ Cairo. http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-37/eg/bulls_eye_say.htm

Pamuk, Orphan (2001) ‘The Anger of the Damned’. The New York Review of Books, Volume 48, Number 18, November 15  http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1476

Recommended Readings:

Booth, Ken and Dunne, Timothy, Worlds in collision: terror and the future of global order, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2002

Boulden, James and Weiss, Thomas, Terrorism and the UN: Before and After September 11, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2004

Carroll, John, Terror: A meditation on the meaning of September 11, Scribe, Melbourne, 2002

Chomsky, Noam, Pirates and emperors, old and new: International Terrorism in the real world, Pluto, London, 2002

Chomsky, Noam, Power and terror: post 9-11 talks and interviews, Seven Stories, New York, 2003

Crotty, William, Democratic Development and Political Terrorism, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 2005

Cooley, John K., Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism, Pluto, London, 2002

Freedman, Lawrence, Superterrorism: Policy Reponses, Blackwell, Oxford, 2002

Gehring, Verna, War after September 11, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, 2003

Gunaratna, Rohan, The Changing Face of Terrorism, Eastern Universities Press, Singapore, 2004

Hershberg, Eric and Moore, Kevin, Critical views of September 11: Analyses from around the world, New Press, New York, 2002

Hoffman, Bruce, Inside Terrorism, Columbia University Press, New York, 1998

Jones, David Martin, Globalisation and the new terror: the Asia-Pacific Dimension, Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, 2004

Laqueur, Walter, No end to War: Terrorism in the twenty-first century, Continuum, New York. 2003

Meyerowitz, Joanne, History and September 11th, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2003

Nassar, Jamal, Globalization and Terrorism: The migration of dreams and nightmares, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2005

Scruton, Roger, Globalization and the Terrorist Threat, ISI Books, Wilmington, 2002

Simonsen, Clifford and Spindlove, Jeremy, Terrorism Today: The past, the players, the future, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2004

Thackrah, John Richard, Revolutionary conflicts: terrorism and unconventional warfare explained, Studymates, Taunton, 2001

Whittaker, David, The Terrorism Reader, Routledge, New York, 2003

Whittaker, David, Terrorists and terrorism in the contemporary world, Routledge, London, 2004

Wilcox, Philip et al, Striking Terror: America's new war, New York Review Books, New York, 2002

Wilkinson, Paul, Terrorism versus liberal democracy, Institute for the study of conflict, London, 1976

Links:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/usterror.html
America
’s
war against terrorism

http://www.cia.gov/terrorism/
Official
CIA website in the war on terror

http://www.zmag.org/GlobalWatch/chomskymit.htm
An Interview with Noam Chomsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terrorism
A
summary of the war on terror

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/WarOnTerror/main.asp
Cartoons
from all over the world depicting terrorism

http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/WarOnTerror.asp
The
War on terror

http://www.terrorism.com/
The
Centre for terrorism research

http://cfrterrorism.org/home/
Terrorism
FAQs

http://www.ready.gov
Protecting
yourself in the event of a terrorist attack

http://www.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terroris.htm
FBI
report on terrorism within the United States


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