The World Affairs Council of Wilmington
The University of Delaware
Center for International Studies
Departments of Communication
and Political Science & International Relations
present

Global Agenda
2002
A program of the University of Delaware's new
"America and the Global Community" initiative

Understanding
International
Terrorism
Today

Course Readings

Professor Ralph J. Begleiter

POSC/COMM444-011 & 080

Updated 3/5/02

Teaching Assistant Shae Johnson

Speaker calendar
Syllabus
Readings
Dinner assignments
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(Note: Some links may require a free subscription to the NY Times online)

Index (click to jump to readings)

1. Overview
2. A Terrorist's Mind
3. The Arab "Street"
4. Political Islam & Living with Terrorism
5. A Longstanding Challenge
6. A Delicate Balance
7. Israel's Experience
8. Pundits
9. New materials added during the semester

• U.S. Seen as "villain" on the world scene (WashPost)
• Understanding the Global Community (Gempesaw)
• NYT It's America's War
• NYT "Root Causes" of Violence ("Freedom Fighting" vs. "Terrorism")
• NYT On Islam
• Brookings Institution on Global Terrorism
• NYT Political Islam
• Why Don't We Just Get Out of the Middle East?
  • U.S. Dependence on Middle East Oil (graphic)
  • Leaving Saudi Arabia
  • Our Saudi Friends (Prince Abdullah)
  • Saudi Prince Abdullah on relations with the U.S. (text)
  • Islam In the World (graphic)
  • U.S. Friends in Saudi Arabia (WashPost Editorial)
  • Bin Laden Family Bedfellows
  • Foreign Students in the U.S.
  • Muslim Students in the U.S.
• WashPost: College Students' Views of the War on Terrorism
• See also State Department Counter Terrorism Resources at top right ---->

• WashPost Al Qaeda's Secret World
• Bin Laden's videotapes
  • WashPost bin Laden October 7 2001 videotape analysis
  • WashPost bin Laden October 7 2001 videotape text
  • WashPost bin Laden, Not Who You Think
  • NYT bin Laden's "candid" November 2001 videotape (analysis)
  • NYT bin Laden November 2001 tape excerpt quotes
  • NYT bin Laden November 2001 tape text
• NYT bin Laden related stories
• NYT The Captured Al Qaeda Terrorism Manual
• NYT After bin Laden Falls
• NYT Al Qaeda's Links to Germany
• NYT Another Terror Plot Unearthed in Germany
• WashPost Al Qaeda's Gold Flowed Through U.A.E.

  BY OUR SPEAKER:
  HOLY WAR, INC.
  Inside The Secret World Of Osama Bin Laden
  By Peter L. Bergen
  Paperback, ISBN: 0-743-23495-2

• NYTimes Tom Friedman - The Arab World
• Doonesbury - The Arab Street
• U.S. State Dept background info on Middle East Peace Process
• Price of Peace Will be Paid in Dreams (NYTimes)
• "PeaceWatch" - Arab-Israeli peace process (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
• "PolicyWatch" - Mideast issues other than peace process - (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
• Mideast Peace Process (NYTimes)
• NYT Dissidents Challenge Saudi Government
• WashPost: To Reach the Arab World, Try Changing the Channel
• NYT A Critical View of Al Jazeera, Arabic TV
• NYT: U.S. Losing the Propaganda War
• News Journal: How We Look to Them
• NYTimes Tom Friedman - The Arab Street
• NYTimes - Winning Arab Hearts & Minds?
• NYTimes - "Axis of Evil" Stokes Anti-US Rally in Iran
• NYTimes - New security at Saudi Religious Pilgrimage
• WashPost Al Qaeda's Gold Flowed Through U.A.E.

• WashPost: Islamic Zealotry is Political, Not Religious
• NYT:Islam In the World (graphic)
• National Geographic: The World of Islam
• National Geographic: Map of the Islamic World (Caution! large download; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view)
• NYTimes Series on Islam
  • A Woman's Place in Islam
  • Europe: New Homes and Visions
  • Bahrain: Mosque and State
  • Russia: Stirrings in the South
  • Saudi Arabia: Devout Rulers
  • Nigeria: Rising Influence
  • Egypt: The Moderate Message
  • Turkey: On the Road to Secularism
  
• Washington Post on the USS Cole Attack in Yemen (Oct 2000)
  • WashPost Terrorism in Yemen
  • Photo gallery - The Cole Attack
  • The Cole Attack (graphic)
  
• NYT Yemen's Role in Today's War on Terrorism
• Yemen map
• NYT Political Islam in Saudi Arabia
• Washington Institute on the Cole incident

• Testimony by CIA Director George Tenet on security threats facing the United States Before Sept 11, 2001 (2/7/01)
• New Testimony by CIA Director George Tenet on security threats facing the United States After Sept 11, 2001 (2/6/2002)
• WashPost Clinton's Counter Terrorism efforts (Part 1)
• WashPost Clinton's Counter Terrorism efforts (Part 2)
• WashPost Bush's Counter Terrorism efforts
• WashPost CIA Tracked Bin Laden
• WashPost The "Bojinka" plot
• NYT Terrorism Beyond Islam
• NYT The Singapore Plot
• NYT The U.S. Embassy/Africa Bombing Plot
• NYT An Egyptian Spy Helps the U.S. Track Bin Laden
• NYT Bin Laden Before Sept 11, 2001 - I
• NYT Bin Laden Before Sept 11, 2001 - II
• NYT Afghanistan Terrorism Before Sept 11, 2001
• NYT Putting a Nation Back Together Again (Nation Building)
• WashPost: Terrorism's Cost to the U.S.

• NYT Egypt: The Moderate Message
• NYT Future of the Arab World
• NYT Investigation in Egypt
• NYT Egyptian Raised Terrorism Funds in the U.S.
• NYT Arab Media View of the War on Terrorism
• NYT Even Close U.S. Allies Question U.S. Tactics
• NYT How the U.S. Detention Center in Cuba Looks to Others

• "PeaceWatch" - Arab-Israeli peace process (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
• "PolicyWatch" - Mideast issues other than peace process - (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
  • Washington Institute The Language of Terrorism
  • Washington Institute critique of U.S. reports on terrorism
  • Washington Institute Israel's view of Afghanistan terrorism before Sept 11, 2001
  • Washington Institute View of terrorism in South Asia before Sept 11, 2001

  BY OUR SPEAKER:
  IVORY TOWERS ON SAND
  By Martin Kramer
  Paperback, ISBN: 0-944029-49-3

• American Public Loses Interest a Few Months after September 11
• WashPost: U.S. Allies See Things Differently
• NYT Friedman - Pakistan is Not Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
• NYT Military Tribunals Transform the Legal Landscape
• NYT Interview with Secretary of State Colin Powell
• A "New" War?
  • WashPost: CIA Plays New Combat Role in Afghanistan
  • WashPost: CIA Combat Role Prompts Infighting Among U.S. Militaries
  • WashPost: Pentagon Fears War's Consequences
• NYT Apple - Afghanistan As Vietnam?
• WashPost Holbrooke - Public Diplomacy
• WashPost: Hollander - A Conservative View
• WashPost - The Next Challenge
• On the Media:
  • NYT Banning bin Laden
  • NYT TV Networks Are Targets of Conservative Critics
  • WashPost The Media & Terrorism
  • NYT Global TV Floods Public with Images of Friend and Foe
• The Angola Mirror ("freedom fighters" & "terrorists")
• E.J. Dionne
  • On George W. Bush

NEW MATERIALS during the semester

• Harris Poll on "terrorists" vs "freedom fighters"
• The Angola Mirror ("freedom fighters" & "terrorists")
• The Lighter Side
  • The World According to the U.S.
  • Axis of Evil-er-than-thou
  • Doonesbury - The Arab Street

Selected International Affairs Publications & Resources

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State Department Counter-Terrorism Resources
• Patterns of Global terrorism
• Chronology of terrorism incidents
• Statistical charts on terrorism, 1981-2000
• Foreign Terrorist Organizations
• See also general State Department resources (below)

The New York Times World
The New York Times on the Middle East

The Washington Post World
The Washington Post Special Reports

International Herald Tribune

Links to newspapers in other countries

The Los Angeles Times

Time Magazine

Newsweek Magazine

The Economist

The Globalist

Foreign Affairs Magazine

Middle East Insight Magazine

The Jerusalem Report

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

United States Institute of Peace

Brookings Institution

Council on Foreign Relations

Asia Society

Woodrow Wilson Int'l Center

The Heritage Foundation

SAIS/Johns Hopkins

Speakout.com

U.S. Department of State

State Dept Country Background Notes

United Nations

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Clinton era White House web site (National Archives)

CIA World Factbook