Outline for today Midterm Essay Question Review of midterm evaluation of teaching Brief intro to thinking about terrorism Guest lecture by: Commander William Peffley, US Navy Worked at Guantamano Bay detention center at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

Midterm evaluation of teaching feedback More on the readings More current events Study guide for exam – coming up No-credit I-clicker “surveys” in class More multimedia Avoid rushing end of lecture All good points, will try to address, and THANKS!

Midterm exam advice Bring Exam books Don’t cheat Avoid talking about “realist” / “feminist” states Realists do not say “war all the time” but states “constantly ready to go to war if needed” Think through evidence and how you can use it to show that you understand the theories Try to show all theories have some validity by picking good evidence that shows they do Use examples from readings, lectures, NYT – but clearly show what they are examples of!!

Terrorism

Which of these is the clearest example of terrorism? Palestinian bombings in Israel Slavery 9/11 Attacks Hiroshima and Nagasaki Irish Republican Army bombings

Which of these best distinguishes terrorism from murder or deaths in war? Who is responsible? What do they want to achieve? What tactics are they using? Who are the targets and who is the audience?

http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/datarivers/vis/GtdExplorer.swf

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/02/us/california-mass-shooting-san-bernardino.html

Criteria to distinguish “terrorism” from “other human-on-human violence” Who is responsible? What do they want to achieve? What tactics are they using? Who are the targets and who is the audience? Do these criteria allow you to distinguish terrorism from military attacks, murder, and other “human-on-human violence?”

Examples of human-on-human violence: which are terrorism? Slavery, and later, the Ku Klux Klan Hiroshima and Nagasaki Irish Republican Army Oklahoma City Bombing Hamas and Intifada fighters 9/11 Attacks Radical Leftist Anti-war activists Systematic rape and abuse of women ELF: Environment Liberation Front and eco-saboteurs White cops killing African-American motorists Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood bombing in December 2015 San Bernardino killing in December 2015

Terrorism NOT Terrorism CRITERIA Who is responsible? What do they want to achieve? What tactics are they using? Who are the targets and who is the audience? Terrorism NOT Terrorism

How does terrorism fit (or not) with 3 theories from course Realism - doesn’t expect non-state actors to play important roles but does expect violence as useful and fungible Institutionalism - institutions have an important role to play in allowing US to operate effectively in its fight against terrorism (Walt). Nonstate actors play a far more important role in institutionalist thought. Disenfranchised –marginalization, oppression, and disempowerment of groups based on identity as source/breeding ground of terrorism. If you take everything away from people then terrorism may be the only tool they have.

Guantanamo Detention Center

A personal account of interacting with terrorists Commander (and Dr/) William Peffley University of Oregon 1990-1994 Pre-med BS in Psychology Former member of the joint task Guantanamo bay