Faculty of Arts
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,
Boulden, James and Weiss, Thomas, Terrorism and the UN: Before and After September 11,
Carroll, John, Terror: A meditation on the meaning of September 11, Scribe,
Chomsky, Noam, Pirates and emperors, old and new: International Terrorism in the real world, Pluto,
Chomsky, Noam, Power and terror: post 9-11 talks and interviews, Seven Stories,
Crotty, William, Democratic Development and Political Terrorism, Northeastern University Press,
Cooley, John K., Unholy Wars:
Freedman,
Gehring, Verna, War after September 11, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, 2003
Gunaratna, Rohan, The Changing Face of Terrorism, Eastern Universities
Hershberg, Eric and Moore, Kevin, Critical views of September 11: Analyses from around the world, New Press,
Hoffman, Bruce, Inside Terrorism,
Jones, David Martin, Globalisation and the new terror: the Asia-Pacific Dimension, Edward Elgar Publishers,
Laqueur, Walter, No end to War: Terrorism in the twenty-first century, Continuum,
Meyerowitz, Joanne, History and September 11th,
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,
Simonsen, Clifford and Spindlove, Jeremy, Terrorism Today: The past, the players, the future,
Thackrah, John Richard, Revolutionary conflicts: terrorism and unconventional warfare explained, Studymates,
Whittaker, David, The Terrorism Reader,
Whittaker, David, Terrorists and terrorism in the contemporary world, Routledge,
Wilcox, Philip et al, Striking Terror:
Wilkinson, Paul, Terrorism versus liberal democracy, Institute for the study of conflict,
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