Theme 8 The social and economic impact of drug trafficking.

Questions for discussion:

1) Your point of view:  Drug trafficking route in Asia

2)  Your point of view: Drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere

3) Your vision: Drug Cartel

Basic literature:

1. United Nations, World Drug Report 2010 Statistical Annex: Drug seizures

2. Jump up^ "Drug seizures Report From Year: 2009 Until Year: 2012 Drug Group: Cocaine-type". United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Retrieved 29 May 2015.

3. Jump up^ Raymond, Nate (19 November 2016). "Venezuelan first lady's nephews convicted in U.S. drug trial". Reuters. Retrieved 19 November 2016.

4. ^ Jump up to:a b "West Africa and Drug Trafficking". www.africaecon.org. Africa Economic Institute. Retrieved 14 October 2013.

5. Jump up^ "GIABA". GIABA. Retrieved 2013-06-09.

6. Jump up^ Kijk magazine, 2/2012

7. Jump up^ Alexandre Schmidt,UNODC, Amadou Ndiaye, Mu'azu Umaru, GIABA

8. Jump up^ "Iran is a firm barrier against drug trafficking to Caucasus". Young Journalists Club. yjc.ir. September 18, 2013. Retrieved September 18, 2013.

9. Jump up^ Bartlett, Jamie (5 October 2014). "Dark net markets: the eBay of drug dealing". Retrieved 17 May 2015.

10. Jump up^ "World Drug Report - Global Illicit Drug Trends". Unodc.org. Retrieved 2011-11-26.

Theme 9 Preventive measures

Questions for discussion:

1) Your vision: Allegations of drug trafficking

2) Discuss Arguments for and against drug prohibition

3) Discuss War on Drugs

Basic literature:

1. JSTOR20699622.

2. Jump up^ "Drug Trafficking in the United States". Retrieved 18 May 2016.

3. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g h i Rocha Garcia, Ricardo (2003). "Drug Trafficking and Its Impact on Colombia: An Economic Overview". Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 28 (55/56): 277–30. JSTOR41800192

4. Quinones, Sam (March–April 2009). "State of War". Foreign Policy. 171: 76–80. JSTOR20684853.

5. ^ Jump up to:a b c Epstein, RJ (18 November 1989). "Drug Wars in the United States". British Medical Journal. 299 (6710): 1275–1276. doi:10.1136/bmj.299.6710.1275. JSTOR29706058.

6. ^ Jump up to:a b Naim, Moises (May–June 2009). "The American Prohibition on Thinking Smart in the Drug War". Foreign Policy. 172: 167–168. JSTOR20684881.

7. Jump up^ Gootenberg, Paul. "Cocaine's Long March North, 1900-2010". Latin American Politics. 54 (1): 159–180. doi:10.1111/j.1548-2456.2012.00146.x. Retrieved 20 October 2013.

Theme 10 Terrorist organizations by regions

Questions for discussion:

1) Discuss: Islamic extremism

2) Discuss: Jewish religious terrorism

3) Discuss: Narcoterrorism

Basic literature:

1. Hoffman, Bruce (Summer 1997). "The Confluence of International and Domestic Trends in Terrorism". Terrorism and Political Violence. 9 (2): 1–15. doi:10.1080/09546559708427399.

2. ^ Jump up to:a b Hoffman, Bruce (1999). Inside Terrorism. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-11469-9.

3. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e Juergensmeyer, Mark (2004). Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-24011-1.

4. ^ Jump up to:a b Nardin, Terry (May 2001). "Review: Terror in the Mind of God". The Journal of Politics. 63 (2): 683–84. JSTOR 2691794.

5. Jump up^ Rogers, M. Brooke; et al. (Jun 2007). "The Role of Religious Fundamentalism in Terrorist Violence: A Social Psychological Analysis". Int Rev Psychiatry. 19 (3): 253–62. doi:10.1080/09540260701349399. PMID 17566903.

6. Jump up^ Interview with Bruce Hoffman; "A Conversation with Bruce Hoffman and Jeffrey Goldberg" pp. 29–35 in Religion, Culture, And International Conflict: A Conversation, edited by Michael Cromartie. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 ISBN 0-7425-4473-7

7. Jump up^ Arquilla, John; Hoffman, Bruce; Jenkins, Brian Michae; Lesser, Ian O.; Ronfeldt, David; Zanini, Michele, eds. (1999). Countering the New Terrorism. Santa Monica, CA: RAND. ISBN 0-8330-2667-4.

Theme 11 Terrorist networks and organizations

Questions for discussion:

1) Discuss:Network Security Services

2) Discuss: Electronic warfare

3) Your vision: Fake news

Basic literature:

1. Gregory J. Rattray, Strategic Warfare in Cyberspace, MIT Press (2001) (ISBN 0262182092).
2. Anthony H. Cordesman, Cyber-threats, Information Warfare, and Critical Infrastructure Protection: DEFENDING THE US HOMELAND (2002) (ISBN 0275974235).
3. Leigh Armistead, Information Operations: The Hard Reality of Soft Power, Joint Forces Staff College and the National Security Agency (2004) (ISBN 1574886991).
4. Thomas Rid, War and Media Operations: The US Military and the Press from Vietnam to Iraq, Routledge (2007) (ISBN 0415416590).
5. Daniel Ventre, Information Warfare, Wiley - ISTE (2009) (ISBN 9781848210943).
6. Daniel Ventre, Cyberwar and Information Warfare, Wiley - ISTE (2011).
7. Daniel Ventre, Information Warfare, 2nd Edition, 352 pages, Wiley - ISTE (2016).

Theme 12 The issue of state-sponsored terrorism

Questions for discussion:

1)  Discuss:Suicide attack

2) Cyberwarfare

3) Disinformation

Basic literature:

1. Fortna, Virginia Page (20 May 2015). "Do Terrorists Win? Rebels' Use of Terrorism and Civil War Outcomes". International Organization. 69 (3): 519–556. doi:10.1017/S0020818315000089. Retrieved 28 September 2016.

2. Jump up^ Hoffman, Bruce (1998). Inside Terrorism. Columbia University Press. p. 32. ISBN 0-231-11468-0. See review in "Inside Terrorism". The New York Times.

3. Jump up^ "Terrorism". Encyclopædia Britannica. p. 3. Retrieved 2015-01-07.

4. Jump up^ Ruby, Charles L. (2002). "The Definition of Terrorism" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-02-22.

5. Jump up^ "About Fear, Terrorism and What is Really New". The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague (ICCT). 4 November 2014. Retrieved 6 September 2016.

6. Jump up^ "Global Terrorism Index 2015" (PDF). Institute for Economics and Peace. p. 33.

Theme 13 Involvement of great powers Active measures against information war

Questions for discussion:

1) Psychological warfare

2) Supporting political movements

3) Discuss: disinformation, propaganda, counterfeiting official documents, assassinations, and political repression

Basic literature:

1. collection%20opportunities%20to%20opposing%20forces.%20Information%20warfare%20is%20closely%20linked%20to%20psychological%20warfare&f=false

2. Jump up^ "About the Air Force: Our Mission - airforce.com". Retrieved 18 February 2015.

3. Jump up^ http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-513930.html

4. Jump up^ "The Warnings? - Cyber War! - FRONTLINE - PBS". Retrieved 18 February 2015.

5. ^ Jump up to:a b Mariarosaria Taddeo. "Mariarosaria Taddeo, Information Warfare: A Philosophical Perspective - PhilPapers". Retrieved 18 February 2015.

6. Winn Schwartau, "Information Warfare: Chaos on the Electronic Superhighway" Thunder's Mouth Press (1993)

7. Winn Schwartau, ed, Information Warfare: Cyberterrorism: Protecting your personal security in the electronic age, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2nd ed, (1996) (ISBN 1560251328).

8. John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, In Athena's Camp, RAND (1997).

9. Dorothy Denning, Information Warfare and Security, Addison-Wesley (1998) (ISBN 0201433036).

10. James Adams, The Next World War: Computers are the Weapons and the Front line is Everywhere, Simon and Schuster (1998) (ISBN 0684834529).

11. Edward Waltz, Information Warfare Principles and Operations, Artech House, 1998, ISBN 0-89006-511-X

12. John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy, RAND (2001) (ISBN 0833030302).

13. Ishmael Jones, The Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture, Encounter Books, New York (2010) (ISBN 978-1594032233). Information/intelligence warfare.