ICP 349 01302007

1
ICP 349 01/30/2007

• Website.
• http//faculty.roosevelt.edu/erickson/kg/icp349/
• Course status
• Reader available last Thursday morning (January
  25)
• I am looking into getting additional copies of
  readers made.
• Checking with ICP and Fulbright.
• McCauley readings now optional, do back-up
  readings instead.
• Back up readings for January 25.
• 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 new due date, February
  8th.
• Paper assignment 1 still due February 15.
• Recent events to pay attention to.
• Battle outside of Najaf right before of Ashura.
• Messianic Cults/Eschatology/ and violence.
• Soldiers of God trigger the return of the
  Mahdi.
• If insurgents were successful, Sunni/Shia civil
  war in Iraq intensified, regional implications.
• Wanted to assassinate Grand Ayatollah Sistani.
• Israel (suicide bombing) Italy (law suit
  against CIA and Italian intelligence) Northern
  Ireland (Sinn Fein and internal security forces).
• Class agenda.
• Discussion of concepts introduced by readings.
• Ross - Smith.
• Video CNN shown last Thursday (Jan. 25).

3

• Next Class February 1.
• Ross - continued.
• Terrorism and Coercion - Definition(s),
  Interests, Measurement.
• Generalizable Theories.
• Levels of analysis.
• Micro, Meso, Macro.
• Actors.
• Structure vs. Agency, Temporality.
• Motivations.
• Cases (individual, small n, large n).