POS 339439: 11282007

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POS 339/439 11/28/2007

• Course status.
• Paper Assignment 3 acknowledgements sent.
• Returned next Wednesday, if not earlier.
• Final paper, due via e-mail before last day of
  class December 12.
• Returned via e-mail before final exam.
• Final Dec. 19, 630 to 900.
• Grades available via RU access 12/28, via e-mail
  late evening 12/22.
• Spring 2008 Erickson.
• POS 346/446 and PADM 446 Counterterrorism and
  Human Rights.
• POS 305 Cities At War.

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• Course agenda Global/International Terrorism and
  Response.
• Presentation.
• Frontline.
• Spying on the Home Front NSA ATT/data mining
  profile (aired October 2006).
• Chapter 3.
• Afghanistan.

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• Final Paper Guidelines.
• Paper due via e-mail before class on December
  12th.
• Hard copy not needed, but will be accepted.
• Paper should be submitted as one merged file 5
  point (out of 100) deduction for multiple files.
• Late penalty, 3 points per each 24 hour period
  late, 5 points per each 24 hour period late after
  48 hours.
• Excel (or other) spread sheets do not need to be
  submitted, but will be reviewed for determining
  paper grade.
• Annotations should not be included in works
  cited.
• All papers will be screened for plagiarism.

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• Case Studies Consequences of Plagiarism.
• PM Blairs staff plagiarized article discussing
  Iraq security apparatus.
• Guardian UK.
• Plagiarized article.
• Author Dr. Ibrahim al-Marashi.
• Was researcher for CNS at MIIS.
• Currently at International Policy Fellow at Open
  Society Institute.
• MLK Th.D. Dissertation.
• Substantial plagiarism discovered by MLK archive
  project Stanford Univ.
• Early discovery could have facilitated FBI
  surveillance, disruption, and neutralization
  programs.
• Including initiation of COINTELPRO Type
  activities (US. FBI. 1977, p. 113)
• Review of high pay off research sites.

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• Global Narcotics Trafficking and Terrorism.
• UN
• 2007 World Drug Report.
• Executive Summary Full Report (in English).

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• Global Narcotics Trafficking and Terrorism UN
  2007 World Drug Report.

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• Global Narcotics Trafficking and Terrorism UN
  2007 World Drug Report.

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• Global Narcotics Trafficking and Terrorism UN
  2007 World Drug Report.

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"Iraq Effect" -Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank
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• Part of "Iraq 101" article on Mother Jones
  Magazine (US) website.

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"Iraq Effect" -Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank
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Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
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Pakistan Tribal Areas
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Pakistan Tribal Areas
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• US Influence Narcotics Trafficking, War On Drugs.
• Video FARC.
• Colombia Profile - MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base.
• GIS Tool on MIPT Website patterns of conflict
  in Colombia.
• Loveman 2006 Addicted to Failure (Pizarro and
  Gaitan) Chap. 2 (Plan Colombia).
• Post 9/11 shift, counter-narcotics to Colombia
  Front of GWOT.
• Vietnamization?
• Multi-dimensionality of Crisis.
• Challenge building democratic state w/n context
  of crisis with regional and global dimensions.
• US Influence Narcotics Trafficking, War On Drugs,
  Colombia 2.
• UN Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs
  Colombia.
• Index site.
• Map site.
• Clandestineradio.com.
• FARC/ELN radio transmissions.

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• Colombia ReliefWeb - Surveillance.

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• Colombia ReliefWeb Conflict Areas (2006).

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• Colombia ReliefWeb Expulsions (2006).

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• Colombia ReliefWeb Dislocated Populations
  Arrivals Change 2004-2005 (2006).

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• Course Status Review.
• Final paper, due via e-mail before last day of
  class December 12.
• Returned via e-mail before final exam.
• Final Dec. 19, 630 to 900.