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This course explores the fundamental role of intelligence in the safeguarding of national security. Students will examine the structure, functions, and processes of intelligence agencies, as well as the methods used in intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination. The course covers the relationship between intelligence and policy-making, the challenges of counterintelligence, ethical considerations, and the impact of intelligence failures and reforms. Through case studies and contemporary issues, students gain a comprehensive understanding of how intelligence supports national defense, manages threats, and informs strategic decision-making in the evolving global security landscape.
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Understanding Terrorism Challenges Perspectives and Issues 6th Edition by Gus Martin
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Chapter 1: Terrorism: First Impressions
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Q1) Which of the following best describes Anders Breivik?
A) He was a famous Bolshevik leader.
B) He is the Unabomber.
C) He is a self-professed right-wing ideologue.
D) All of these.
Answer: C
Q2) The just war doctrine is ______.
A) an ideal and moralistic philosophy
B) originally referred only to warfare between nations and cities
C) neither of these
D) both "an ideal and moralistic philosophy" and "originally referred only to warfare between nations and cities"
Answer: D
Q3) Osama bin Laden was ______.
A) killed in Afghanistan by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
B) the mastermind behind opposition to the war in Iraq
C) founder of Al-Qa'ida
D) all of these
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The Nature of the Beast: Defining Terrorism
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Q1) Among participants in a terrorist environment, which of the following represents a symbolic feature of the terrorists' enemies?
A) the onlooker
B) the analyst
C) the supporter
D) none of these
Answer: D
Q2) The worldview of extremists will often ______.
A) set them apart from the rest of society
B) consist of conspiracy theories
C) give them a very clear sense of mission and purpose
D) all of these
Answer: D
Q3) Are hate crimes acts of terrorism?
A) Yes, because they always include an element of terror.
B) Yes, because they represent the same behavior.
C) No, they are simply another type of crime.
D) Perhaps, depending on the circumstances of the crime.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Beginnings: the Causes of Terrorism
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Q1) One reason that Western democracies regularly denounce political violence is because ______.
A) there are more conventional reasons for using political violence
B) political violence is a dishonorable practice
C) it is often directed against the West by adversaries
D) it is immoral behavior
Answer: C
Q2) Women rarely participate in terrorist movements.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Abu Nidal represents an interesting case study for which of the following profiles?
A) a dedicated nationalist revolutionary fighting for the rights of his people
B) a religious fundamentalist seeking to defend his faith against nonbelievers
C) a transnational ideological revolutionary who collaborated with a variety of movements
D) none of these
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Terror From Above: Terrorism by the State
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Q1) In your opinion, what sort of government was that of Saddam Hussein?
Q2) In your opinion, are authoritarian regimes more likely to engage in domestic and international terrorism than are democratic regimes? If so, why? If not, why not? Explain your answer.
Q3) In what ways does state terrorism pose a more significant threat to the international community than do non-state terrorist groups?
Q4) The Anfal Campaign targeted which group of people?
A) Cambodian ideological undesirables and enemies
B) Basque separatists in Spain
C) Kurdish residents in Iraq
D) Christians and religious minorities in Sudan
Q5) The Khmer Rouge targeted which group of people?
A) Cambodian ideological undesirables and perceived enemies
B) Basque separatists in Spain
C) Kurdish residents in Iraq
D) Christians and religious minorities in Sudan
Q6) The Anfal Campaign was an act of genocide in Cambodia.
A)True
B)False
Q7) In your opinion, what sort of government was that of Muammar el-Qaddafi?
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Chapter 5: Terror From Below: Terrorism by Dissidents
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Q1) The PLO was ultimately defeated by Israel.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The New Terrorism represents an era in which the morality of terrorist violence allows for few limitations on extremist behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q3) "Lone-wolf" acts of political violence refer to
A) eco-terrorism by groups like the Earth Liberation Front.
B) terrorism carried out by members and agents of established terrorist organizations.
C) terrorism that is useful for intimidating neutral and undecided individuals.
D) terrorism carried out by individuals who are not official or formal members or agents of established terrorist organizations.
Q4) Using the case of Palestinian violence against Israeli interests, discuss the Maoist concepts of "people's war" and "war of national liberation." Discuss why the Palestinian nationalist movement has been viable for decades despite repeated setbacks and constant Israeli pressure.
Q5) In your opinion, are rebels sometimes labeled too quickly as terrorists?
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Chapter 6: Violence in the Name of the Faith: Religious Terrorism
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Q1) Why does Holocaust denial persist?
Q2) Compare the differences between an Islamic jihad and a Christian Crusade. What is the modern perception of what a jihad is? How have groups like Al-Qa'ida used jihad to justify what they do?
Q3) Radical Christian and Muslim extremists are arguably similar in that they are "exclusivist" in their beliefs. Which of the following best summarizes this tendency?
A) They believe that their faith tradition is the "one True faith."
B) They believe that their faith tradition is compatible with other faith traditions.
C) They believe that their faith tradition may have flaws, but it is basically a good tradition.
D) None of these.
Q4) Which of the following observations is most correct?
A) Religious terrorism began in the modern era.
B) Religious terrorism was rare throughout history.
C) Religious terrorism has a long history.
D) Religious terrorism is unique to the Middle East.
Q5) What kinds of targets do radical Christians typically attack? Why have these targets been selected?
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Chapter 7: Violent Ideologies: Terrorism From the Left and Right
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Q1) Discuss the significance of the classical ideological continuum for the analysis of political extremism in the modern world. Is this continuum useful for evaluating the nature of the New Terrorism? If so, how so? If not, how not?
Q2) Terrorist activity conducted by the fringe left wing is often characterized by which of the following?
A) apparently indiscriminate violence that often results in civilian casualties
B) the use of high-yield weapons and weapons of mass destruction
C) relatively "surgical" attacks against defined targets that result in relatively few civilian casualties
D) asymmetrical warfare such as the use of suicide bombings
Q3) Briefly discuss the terrorist environment created by West Germany's Red Army Faction.
Q4) In your opinion, why did revolutionary Marxism become the predominant ideology of the extreme left rather than revolutionary anarchism?
Q5) Briefly discuss the threat from the racist skinhead movement.
Q6) The proletariat represents the middle class.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Terrorist Spillovers: International Terrorism
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Q1) Terrorists operate on the "world's stage" because ______.
A) international attacks reap propaganda benefits that are impossible when attacks are limited to domestic attacks
B) the use of social networking media and the Internet promulgate their message to a global audience
C) media attention is immediate
D) all of these
Q2) Using the Afghan Arabs as an example, what is a potentially ongoing threat scenario from the current war on terrorism?
Q3) The modern era of international terrorism was arguably pioneered by which of the following movements?
A) the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka
B) Al-Qa'ida
C) the Palestinian movement
D) Carlos "the Jackal"
Q4) Discuss why transportation carriers and nodes are selected for attack by terrorists.
Q5) Why has Europe been a frequent location for international terrorism?
Q6) In your opinion, what is the future of international terrorism?
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Chapter 9: Emerging Terrorist Environments:
Gender-Selective Political Violence and Criminal Dissident
Terrorism
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Q1) Narco-terrorism occurs when governments leave criminal enterprises alone.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Within the context of gender-selective terrorism, discuss how the case of the Janjaweed in Sudan is an example of state-sponsored communal terrorism. Discuss also how this and other such campaigns can become genocidal in scale.
Q3) Briefly explain why the Afghanistan drug trade continued during the NATO and American war against the Taliban.
Q4) Which of the following propositions best explains the reasons for why Colombia's FARC participated in the drug trade?
A) It was a pragmatic decision to provide financial resources for the movement.
B) FARC was actually a criminal enterprise, and its professed ideological motivations were a ruse.
C) There was competition from other insurgent enterprises.
D) The FARC position was that drug consumption gave its fighters courage.
Q5) Cultural repression of women is common.
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A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Tools of the Trade: Tactics and Targets of Terrorists
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Q1) Which of the following statements most accurately describes the use of the Internet and social networking media by extremists?
A) Terrorists rarely access the Internet because of possible surveillance by intelligence agencies.
B) Tweeting, texting, and other media platforms are used to record and tout claimed successes.
C) There exists a rudimentary and unsophisticated use of these technologies by extremists.
D) These technologies are irrelevant to terrorist operations.
Q2) The netwar theory is an important concept in the new terrorist environment because it refers to which of the following?
A) new and evolving modes of cyber warfare
B) addressing the threat of unprecedented levels of cyberterrorism
C) a new mode of conflict using network forms of organization and related strategies and technologies attuned to the information age
D) both "new and evolving modes of cyber warfare" and "addressing the threat of unprecedented levels of cyberterrorism"
Q3) How can the effectiveness of a terrorist incident be measured?
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Chapter 11: The Information Battleground: Terrorist Violence
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Q1) In the United States, freedom of reporting about matters affecting security policy
A) is permitted because of the people's right to know
B) is unregulated because of First Amendment principles
C) has periodically been regulated by restricting media access to information about matters that affect security policy
D) none of these
Q2) Al Jazeera is a terrorist propaganda organization.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The contagion effect occurs when terrorists copy each other's methods.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the United States, which of the following ethical standards are recommended when reporting terrorist incidents?
A) avoid unchallenged terrorist propaganda
B) never try to solve a situation
C) do not serve as a spokesman/accomplice of the terrorists
D) all of these
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Chapter 12: The American Case: Terrorism in the United States
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Q1) In your opinion, does a viable threat exist in the United States of political violence from domestic sympathizers of Al-Qa'ida and other jihadist movements? Explain your answer.
Q2) The Symbionese Liberation Army was a(n) ______.
A) African American nationalist organization
B) Puerto Rican nationalist organization
C) Patriot movement militia
D) left-wing terrorist group
Q3) Briefly discuss the pattern and attributes of Ku Klux Klan terrorism.
Q4) How pronounced has the "spillover effect" been in the United States?
Q5) Describe possible threat scenarios from single-issue extremists in the United States. How persistent are movements such as the radical environmentalists?
Q6) Which of the following legislation was passed in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, homeland attacks?
A) the USA FREEDOM Act
B) the USA PATRIOT Act
C) the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act
D) all of these
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Q7) What have been the attributes of nationalist terrorism in the United States?
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Chapter 13: Counterterrorism: the Options
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Q1) INTERPOL is an international strike force called in to police trouble spots on behalf of the United Nations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Why do you think many people favor the use of force as a counterterrorist option?
Q3) What lessons are to be learned from the example of the <i>Achille Lauro</i> prosecution?
Q4) Counterterrorist statutory authority is derived, in part, from which of the following acts?
A) the Elimination of Terrorism Act
B) the Homeland Security Terrorism Reduction Act
C) the USA PATRIOT Act
D) the War Powers Act
Q5) Describe the theory and application of economic sanctions as a counterterrorist methodology. How useful are economic sanctions as a counterterrorist option? Explain your answer.
Q6) In your opinion, is international law an effective counterterrorist body of law?
Q7) Is assassination an acceptable counterterrorist option? Explain your answer.
Q8) What lessons are to be learned from the example of Force 777?
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Chapter 14: A New Era: Homeland Security
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Q1) Complete the following statement: "After the formation of the modern homeland security environment, the overarching mission of police agencies was to serve in a ______ capacity."
A) internal security
B) protect and serve
C) collaborative
D) law enforcement
Q2) Is the USA Patriot Act a necessary law? Explain your answer.
Q3) Terrorist profiling poses which of the following challenges to the protection of civil liberties?
A) legal protections should be enforced for suspects
B) illicit kidnappings and detentions violate local and international laws
C) high potential for racial profiling
D) torture, however defined, is fundamentally immoral
Q4) Briefly describe how the concept of "homeland security" had been implemented in the United States.
Q5) In your opinion, which societal responses will prove to be most effective for countering terrorism? Explain your answer.
Q6) How prevalent should surveillance technology be? Why?
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Chapter 15: What Next the Future of Terrorism
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Q1) Violence from international sources against the United States will continue to come from which of the following?
A) the Provisional Irish Republican Army
B) the Jewish Defense League
C) Omega 7
D) religious extremists from Middle Eastern spillovers
Q2) How will governments counter terrorist financial operations in the near future?
Q3) Briefly discuss the terrorist environment in the new millennium.
Q4) Modern surveillance technologies are expected to continue to be used to access which of the following?
A) telephone records and conversations
B) computer communications such as e-mail
C) credit card records
D) all of these
Q5) Exotic technologies are readily obtainable by terrorists.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How prevalent should surveillance technology be? Why?
Q7) In your opinion, which regions will continue to experience the most likely incidence of terrorist threats?
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