Terrorism and Transnational Security Issues

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Introduction to the general aspects of terrorism and counter-terrorism in order to build transnational security. The course examines these issues in terms of forms, causal factors, goals, and consequences. The main objective is to understand terrorism as part of new international security issues such as failed states, environmental degradation, demographic explosion and poverty, conflict in developing world, post-conflict reconstruction, income distribution, humanitarian emergencies, and globalization.