Tag: counterterrorism
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Terrorism at Munich: Lessons Learned 50 Years On
About the Lecture Not many events of the late 20th century are as important and foreboding as the seizing of 11 athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Black September, a Palestinian group, held the Israeli captives during a long drama observed over T.V. by as many as one billion people. Then, at a nearby…
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Counterterrorism and the Democracies (IWP 669)
Dr. Christopher C. Harmon discusses his course on Counterterrorism and the Democracies (IWP 669). About the course: Counterterrorism was once a narrow preoccupation of the few and had a small role on the stage of national policy making. Its appearances in political life were periodic. No longer. America lost nearly as many people on 9/11…
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Tushita Talks … to the World #10. A Citizen’s Guide to Terrorism …
Dr. Christopher C. Harmon spoke with political scientist and author Christopher Snedden about the current issues concerning terrorism in society.
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Spain’s ETA Terrorist Group is Dying
Originally published at Orbis Orbis Volume 56, Issue 4, Autumn 2012, Pages 588-607 The armed organization “Basque Fatherland & Liberty” undertook a struggle for an independent homeland vis-à-vis Spanish central government over half a century ago. But today, the author argues, the ETA appears doomed for three reasons. First, Spanish statesmen of the late 1970s…
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Anarchism & Fire in London: A Centenary
“Anarchism & Fire in London: A Centenary” In London, one hundred years ago, on the weekday morning of 3 January, citizens awoke amidst “The Siege of Sidney Street.” Well-armed Anarchists tried to rob a jeweler, murdered police who responded, and then disappeared within the city. Located in an apartment building after two weeks, they were…
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Illustrations of Discrete Uses of Force in Counterterrorism
Read the full article here In 1901, an insurrection in the Philippines Islands brought prominence to a talented but relatively inexperienced general of U.S. Army volunteers, Frederick Funston. He demonstrated that good intelligence and deception were still as valuable as when the Chinese commander Sun Tzu called them the very essence of war some 2400…
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Public diplomacy’s next challenge
Connections Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring 2008), pp. 141-153 (13 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/26323324?seq=1 Despite seven years of experiments, U.S. public diplomacy against international terrorism has largely failed. What is most needed is a strong infusion of fresh ideas. The rhetorical branch of the offensive against terror has been utterly neglected. U.S. spokesmen should re-open the argument…