THE HOLOCAUST, TERRORISM AND GENOCIDE

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This course is a Genocide (G) elective.The German Nazi Party was a terrorist movement in 1923, before it became an illegitimate government (1933) with the power to commit genocide. The seminar will concentrate on three aspects of the terrorism that has become the face of modern war. The identifying characteristics of a terrorist, potentially genocidal movement that can alert an effective Early Warning System; the signs that a legitimate regime is disintegrating through economic depression, military disaster or subversion; the defining structures of a dictatorship or other totalitarian regime, that is endemically genocidal toward internal unwanted populations and aggressive toward other governments and peoples.