CDS402 Political Violence

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2020

The course is not taught in Spring 2020

Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Marek Rybář, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Otto Eibl, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Stanislav Balík, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • Long-term trends in armed conflicts.
  • Civil Wars: Conceptual Definitions
  • Causes of Civil War
  • Violence against Civilians
  • Ending Civil wars
  • What is Terrorism?
  • Economics, Inequality and Terrorism
  • Religion and Terrorism
  • Understanding Lone Actor Terrorism
  • Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency
Literature
    required literature
  • Krueger, Alan B. What Makes a Terrorist? Economics and the Roots of Terrorism. Princeton: PU Press, 2007.
  • Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism. Eli Berman. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009.
  • Inside terrorism. Edited by Bruce Hoffman. Rev. and expanded ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, xvii, 432. ISBN 9780231126991. info
  • KALYVAS, Stathis N. The logic of violence in civil war. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, xviii, 485. ISBN 0521670047. info
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2020, recent)
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