PCR 301: Terrorism and Global Conflicts

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

1. discuss the major world wars and terrorism, specifically focusing on contexts, causation, global and local impacts and ways to mitigate such threats;
2. identify the difference between terrorized and free polities and world;
3. draw lesson from the era of Cold- war and era of conflicts in a unipolar system; and
4. analyse asymmetrical wars and other modern modes of conflicts both globally and locally.

Course Contents

Issues concerning global development and its relationship to conflict and terrorism. It focuses on specific topics including the world wars, the cold war and asymmetrical wars including terrorism, with an overarching aim to understanding the root causes and impacts of these diverse conflicts and ways that states can mitigate these threats. The causes, theatres of engagements. The countries involved, the duration, their resolution and impacts. The Causes, the countries involved, the highlights, the issues, the resolution and impacts. This course uses three key issues in international relations to explore the major processes and trends shaping international affairs between 1945 and 1991. The components build upon and inform each other. The history of the Cold War informs the discussion of both the development of nuclear weapons, and nuclear strategy and foreign policy; using historical examples to illustrate ideas and principles within the context of their evolution.