Module Four

(Future and Emerging Trends)

 

Required Readings:

1.    Understanding Terrorism (Poland)

        a.    Chapter Four: The Palestine Question and Al Qaeda

        b.    Chapter Ten: The Future of Terrorism

 2.   Terrorism (Snowden & Whitsel)

        a.    Chapter Eleven: New Age Groups and Public Order

        b.    Chapter Fifteen: Security-Threat Groups: The Threats Posed by

               White-Supremacist Organizations

        c.    Chapter Seventeen: Extremism in the Military: The Burmeister Case and

               Policy Response.

        d.    Chapter Eighteen: Rural Radical Religon: Christian Identity Movement

               and Community Militas.

 

Recommended Readings:
 

None

 

Assignments:
        (Note: Assignment due dates are listed on the course homepage)

 

Written Assignments

None

Practical Exercise

Prepare a one or two page briefing paper for the chief executive of your agency.  He or she has asked you one question: Is the greatest threat to our local security domestic or international?  Based on your readings and research, make a decision and justify that decision.  Hint: The required readings in this module and from the previous modules will be very helpful. Note: This paper should not be in an academic style (such as APA), but in an organizational style of writing.

Session/Semester Long Project:
 

Submit your final paper.

 

Participation Assignment