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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / UGT-518 - ULUSLARARASI GÜVENLİK VE TERÖRİZM ANABİLİM DALI

Code: UGT-518 Course Title: TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department ULUSLARARASI GÜVENLİK VE TERÖRİZM ANABİLİM DALI
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer HÜSEYİN ARAS (huseyinaras@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
To examine the meaning of terrorism, its aims, objectives, types, causes, ideological roots and its place in international relations and to understand how foreign policy is used as an alternative tool.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 can have conceptual and theoretical knowledge about terrorism PO-2 comprehends the aims, objectives, types, causes, dynamics, financing of terrorism and its role in international power struggles.
Examination
LO-2 can comprehend the historical process of terrorism PO-2 comprehends the aims, objectives, types, causes, dynamics, financing of terrorism and its role in international power struggles.
Examination
LO-3 can comprehend the place and role of terrorism in international power struggles PO-2 comprehends the aims, objectives, types, causes, dynamics, financing of terrorism and its role in international power struggles.
PO-6 follows national and international developments on security and terrorism.
PO-7 introduces critical approaches to political studies in national and international level abaout the fields of security and terrorism.
Examination
LO-4 can comprehend how instrumentalization of terrorism for political purposes PO-1 comprehends the place, the role and the effects of security in international relations.
PO-2 comprehends the aims, objectives, types, causes, dynamics, financing of terrorism and its role in international power struggles.
PO-6 follows national and international developments on security and terrorism.
PO-7 introduces critical approaches to political studies in national and international level abaout the fields of security and terrorism.
PO-9 performs scientific studies on international security and terrorism.
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Basic concepts: security, terrorism; the meaning of terrorism, its aims, objectives, types; the historical process and ideological roots of terrorism; the place of terrorism in international relations; instrumentalization of terrorism in foreign policy; international security problem and international terrorism
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Basic concepts: security, terrorism, political violence Discussion, explanation, case study, question-answer
2 The meaning, aims, objectives, types of terrorism Discussion, explanation, case study, question-answer
3 The meaning, aims, objectives, types of terrorism Discussion, explanation, case study, question-answer
4 Historical process and ideological roots of terrorism Discussion, explanation, case study, question-answer
5 Historical process and ideological roots of terrorism Discussion, explanation, case study, question-answer
6 The place of terrorism in international relations Discussion, explanation, case study, question-answer
7 The place of terrorism in international relations Discussion, explanation, case study, question-answer
8 mid-term exam
9 The instrumentalization of terrorism in foreign policy Discussion, question and answer, brain storming
10 The instrumentalization of terrorism in foreign policy Discussion, question and answer, brain storming
11 The instrumentalization of terrorism in foreign policy Discussion, question and answer, brain storming
12 The instrumentalization of terrorism in foreign policy Discussion, question and answer, brain storming
13 International security problem and international terrorism Discussion, question and answer, brain storming
14 International security problem and international terrorism Discussion, question and answer, brain storming
15 International security problem and international terrorism Discussion, question and answer, brain storming
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Martin, Gus, 2017, Terörizm: Kavramlar ve Kuramlar (Çev. İhsan Çapcıoğlu ve Bahadır Metin), Adres Yayınları.
2 Crenshaw, Martha, 1981, “The Causes of Terrorism”, Comparative Politics, Vol:3, No:4, p.379-399.
3 Wilkinson, Paul, 2002, “Terörizmin Kökleri”, Silinen Yüzler Karşısında Terör (Haz. Cemal Güzel), Ayraç Yayınevi, s.176-179.
4 Lutz, Brenda ve Lutz, James, 2017, “Terörizm”, Çağdaş Güvenlik Çalışmaları (Ed. Allan Collins), (Çev. Nasuh Uslu), Röle Akademik Yayıncılık, s.273-288.
5 Tilly, Charles, 2004, “Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists”, Sociological Theory, Vol:22, No:1, p.5-13.
6 Caşin, Mesut Hakkı, 2008, Uluslararası Terörizm, Nobel Yayın Dağıtım, “Terörün Nedenleri ve Motivatörleri” s.277-410.
7 Kışlalı, Ahmet Taner, 2006, Siyasal Sistemler Siyasal Çatışma ve Uzlaşma, İmge Kitabevi, “Şiddetin Psikolojisi” s.34-40; “Terörizmin Sosyolojisi” s.40-48; “İnanç Sistemleri ve Siyasal Çatışma” s.49-170.
8 Yayla, Atilla, 1990, Terörizm: Kavramsal Bir Çerçeve, Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi, Cilt 45, Sayı 1, s. 335-385.
9 Yılmaz, Sait, 2017, Uluslararası Güvenlik Teori Pratik ve Gelecek, Kaynak Yayınları.
10 Giraldo, Jeanne ve Trinkunas, Harold, 2017, “Ulus-Ötesi Suç”, Çağdaş Güvenlik Çalışmaları (Ed. Allan Collins), (Çev. Nasuh Uslu), Röle Akademik Yayıncılık, s.346-361.
11 Chomsky, Noam, 2002, “Uluslararası Terörizm: Görünüş ile Gerçek”, Silinen Yüzler Karşısında Terör (Haz. Cemal Güzel), Ayraç Yayınevi, s.217-254.
12 Çağlar, Ali, 2009, “Terör ve Terörizm: Kavramsal Analiz”, Terör ve Türkiye (Ed. Ali Çağlar), Gazi Kitabevi, s.5-36.
13 Çitlioğlu, Ercan, 2009, “Terörizm ve Küreselleşme”, Terör ve Türkiye (Ed. Ali Çağlar), Gazi Kitabevi, s.329-343.
Required Course instruments and materials
Computer, projection device, blackboard

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 12 36
Outside Class
       a) Reading 3 12 36
       b) Search in internet/Library 3 12 36
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 3 12 36
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 2 7 14
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 2 5 10
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 170