Theme 2. The issues of integration and stability in geopolitics

Questions for discussion:

1) Types of analysis in the study of geopolitical threats

2) What is the government's role in stabilizing the situation (Drug Traffic)

3)Basic roots of global international terrorism and drug trafficking

Basic literature:

1. UN report puts world's illicit drug trade at estimated USD$321b". Boston.com. June 30, 2005.

2. Jump up^ "History of the Opium Trade in China".

3. Jump up^ "Illegal Drugs in America: A Modern History". Deamuseum.org. Retrieved 2011-11-26.

4. Jump up^ "The 1912 Hague International Opium Convention". Druglibrary.org. Retrieved 2011-11-26.

5. Jump up^ "History of Legislative Control Over Opium, Cocaine, and Their Derivatives". Druglibrary.org. Retrieved 2011-11-26.

6. Jump up^ Hanes, William Travis; Sanello, Frank (2004). The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another. Sourcebooks, Inc. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-4022-0149-3.

7. Jump up^ Berridge, Virginia; Edwards, Griffith (1981). Opium and the People, Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England.

Theme 3 The most important aspects of integration processes (against international terrorism)

Questions for discussion:

1) Discuss the  policy of protectionism against IT

2) Discuss the  policy of protectionism against DT

3) Discuss the  policy of protectionism against IC

Basic literature:

1. "Legal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels - VICE News".

2. Jump up^ "Violent anti-Western extremism is nothing new to Saudi Arabia, but several bombings in the past two years raise fresh questions". Sptimes.com. Retrieved 2013-06-09.

3. Jump up^ See McCoy, A; The Politics of Heroin, Lawrence Hill, 2003

4. Jump up^ United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. "Afghanistan Opium Survey 2007" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-01-27.

5. Jump up^ "Opium Amounts to Half of Afghanistan's GDP in 2007, Reports UNODC" (Press release). UNODC. 2008-11-16. Retrieved 2007-01-27.

6. Jump up^ "News from DEA, Congressional Testimony, 11/09/05". Dea.gov. Retrieved 2008-10-17.

7. Jump up^ Street Terms: Methamphetamine Office of National Drug Control Policy

8. Jump up^ DEA (2008). "Maps of Methamphetamine Lab Incidents".

9. Jump up^ Bootie Cosgrove-Mather."Rolling Meth Labs In Vogue – Methamphetamine Makers Turn Vehicles Into Rolling Drug Labs." CBS News. Published July 17, 2002. Retrieved on 2009-02-14.

10. Jump up^ NIDA (2008). "NIDA InfoFacts: Methamphetamine".

11. Jump up^ Sommerfeld, Julia (February 2001). "Beating an addiction to meth". Meth's Deadly Buzz. MSNBC. Retrieved 2008-06-29.

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Theme 4 The influence of globalization and regionalization processes on international terrorism and drug trafficking

Questions for discussion:

1) What you think about the strategic battling against IT that Western countries (including EU) give to the Russian Federation? 

2) Discuss the EU project of cooperation with Central Asia against DT

3) Discuss the EU project of cooperation with Central Asia against IT

Basic literature:

1. "1983: Car bomb in South Africa kills 16". BBC. 2005-05-20. Retrieved 2010-01-11. The outlawed anti-apartheid group the African National Congress has been blamed for the attack ... He said the explosion was the "biggest and ugliest" terrorist incident since anti-government violence began in South Africa 20 years ago.

2. Jump up^ Rick Young (May 16, 2007). "PBS Frontline: 'Spying on the Home Front'". PBS: Frontline. Retrieved 2010-01-11. ... we and Frontline felt that it was important to look more comprehensively at the post-9/11 shift to prevention and the dilemma we all now face in balancing security and privacy.

3. Jump up^ Yager, Jordy (July 25, 2010). "Former intel chief: Homegrown terrorism is a devil of a problem". thehill.com.

4. Jump up^ shabad, goldie and francisco jose llera ramo. "Political Violence in a Democratic State", Terrorism in Context. Ed. Martha Crenshaw. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1995. pp. 467.

Theme 5 Analyze a role of mass-media according to the Information control

Questions for discussion:

1) Your vision:  Explain the Security Trends in a Social Networking

2) Information warfare

3) Television and disinformation.

Basic literature:

1. ISACA (2006). CISA Review Manual 2006. Information Systems Audit and Control Association. p. 85. ISBN 1-933284-15-3.

2. Jump up^ Spagnoletti, Paolo; Resca A. (2008). "The duality of Information Security Management: fighting against predictable and unpredictable threats". Journal of Information System Security. 4 (3): 46–62.

3. Jump up^ Kiountouzis, E.A.; Kokolakis, S.A. Information systems security: facing the information society of the 21st century. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd. ISBN 0-412-78120-4.

4. Jump up^ "NIST SP 800-30 Risk Management Guide for Information Technology Systems"(PDF). Retrieved 2014-01-17.

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6. Jump up^ "Segregation of Duties Control matrix". ISACA. 2008. Archived from the original on 3 July 2011. Retrieved 2008-09-30.

7. Peltier, Thomas R. (2002). Information Security Policies, Procedures, and Standards: guidelines for effective information security management. Boca Raton, FL: Auerbach publications. ISBN 0-8493-1137-3.

8. White, Gregory (2003). All-in-one Security+ Certification Exam Guide. Emeryville, CA: McGraw-Hill/Osborne. ISBN 0-07-222633-1.

9. Dhillon, Gurpreet (2007). Principles of Information Systems Security: text and cases. NY: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-45056-6.

Theme 6 Problems of Migrations and international terrorism

Questions for discussion:

1) Discuss: Democracy and domestic terrorism

2) Discuss: Religious terrorism

3) Your point of view: State terrorism

Basic literature:

1. Dingley, James; Kirk-Smith, Michael (Spring 2002). "Symbolism and Sacrifice in Terrorism". Small Wars & Insurgencies. 13 (1): 102–28. doi:10.1080/714005406.

2. Jump up^ Matovic, Violeta, Suicide Bombers: Who's Next, Belgrade, The National Counter Terrorism Committee, ISBN 978-8690830923

3. Jump up^ Sean Farrell Moran, "Patrick Pearse and Patriotic Soteriology: The Irish Republican Tradition and the Sanctification of Political Self-Immolation," in The Irish Terrorism Experience, edited by Yonah Alexander and Alan O'Day, Aldershot, Dartmouth Press, 1991. ISBN 978-1855212107

4. Jump up^ Madsen, Julian (August 2004). "Suicide Terrorism: Rationalizing the Irrational" (PDF). Strategic Insights. 3 (8).

5. ^ Jump up to:a b Pape, Robert A. (2005). Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. New York City, NY: Random House. ISBN 1-4000-6317-5.

Theme 7  Causes and channels of drug trafficking.

Questions for discussion:

1) Discuss the Effects of the illegal drug trade on societies

2) Illegal cocaine trade via Venezuela

3) Your point of view: Illegal cocaine trade via West Africa

Basic literature:

1. Jacobson, Mireille (Nov 2004). "Baby Booms and Drug Busts: Trends in Youth Drug Use in the United States, 1975-2000". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 119 (4): 1481–1512. doi:10.1162/0033553042476125. JSTOR 25098723.

2. ^ Jump up to:abcdChabat, Jorge (December 2010). "Combatting Drugs in Mexico under Calderon: The Inevitable War" (PDF). CIE. 205: 1–14. Retrieved 5 November 2013.

3. ^ Jump up to:abcSalvador Maldonado, Aranda (April 2013). "Stories of Drug Trafficking in Rural Mexico: Territories, Drugs and Cartels in Michoacan". European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 94: 43–66. JSTOR 23408421.

4. ^ Jump up to:abcdefghijklmnMorris, Stephen. "Drugs, Violence, and Life in Mexico" (PDF): 216–223. Retrieved 5 November 2013.

5. ^ Jump up to:abCampbell, Howard (Winter 2008). "Female Drug Smugglers on the U.S. Mexico Border: Gender, Crime, and Empowerment". Anthropological Quarterly. 81 (1): 233–267. doi:10.1353/anq.2008.0004. Retrieved 20 October 2013.

6. ^ Jump up to:abcdefghijThoumi, Francisco (Jul 2002). "Illegal Drugs in Colombia: From Illegal Economic Boom to Social Crisis". Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: Cross-National Drug Policy. 582: 102–116.