ICP 349 01252007

1
ICP 349 01/25/2007

• Website.
• http//faculty.roosevelt.edu/erickson/kg/icp349/
• Address listed in syllabus incorrect, redirect
  page place at incorrect address.
• Course status
• Reader should be available this afternoon, if not
  I will photocopy and leave 10 copies of next
  weeks readings in ICP office and send an e-mail
  letting class know when they are ready.
• McCauley readings now optional, do back-up
  readings instead.
• Back up readings for today,
• FAS Intelligence Resource Project's Translation
  of 1998 "Russian Law on Fighting Terrorism."
• Smith, Mark 2004. "Russian Perspectives on
  Terrorism" Kyrgyz Ministry of Defense October 13,
  2006 press release re "South 2006" joint
  Kyrgyz/Russian counterterror exercises.

2

• Course status, continued.
• Presentation date/topic originally due January
  30th.
• Because reader not available when planned, due
  date pushed back until February 8th.
• Paper assignment 1 still due February 15.
• Due date pushed back if reader not available by
  next week.
• Class agenda.
• Discussion of concepts introduced by readings.

3

• Discussion questions from Ross/syllabus.
• What do you consider to be the most important
  problem in defining terrorism and why?
• Has your answer changed based on reading
• Kyrgyz and Russian anti-terror legislation,
• discussion of the assassination of Dink,
• and reading Smith,
• or videos shown in class today (Iraq, Somalia,
  All in war excerpt from War Within).
• Video Used
• CNN Combat Operations on Haifa Street.
• CNN article January 24, 2007.

4

• Typology of Political Terrorism.

5

• Tomorrow ICP Conference Concept of Eurasia
  International Conference in Memoriam for Viktoria
  Lavrova.
• Location 1/315 Time 1100-1600.
• Note Location changed - 1/232, time the same.
• Next Class January 30.
• Ross, McCauley now optional.
• Terrorism and Coercion - Definition(s) and
  Interests.
• Legitimacy and Illegitimacy.
• Legality and Illegality.
• Generalizable Theories.
• Levels of analysis.
• Micro, Meso, Macro.
• Actors.
• Structure vs. Agency, Temporality.
• Motivations.
• Cases (individual, small n, large n).