PICT838: Insurgency and Non-State Security Challenges
This unit explores the threat posed by non-state security challenges and their unconventional methods in the post-Cold War environment. Non-state challenges can include terrorism, insurgency and transnational crimes such as arms trafficking, people smuggling, drug trafficking and piracy. The unit compares and contrasts these challenges to conventional state responses. As well as exploring the links between these challenges, this unit also examines some of the major drivers, such as globalisation and advances in technology, that have facilitated their rise to prominence. As terrorism features predominantly as a significant non-state challenge, radicalisation, religion and the origins of modern terrorism will also be explored.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
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E2 - Evening; Offered in the second half-year
X2 - External study; Offered in the second half-year (On Campus session: No session) |
| Staff Contact: | Vince Williams |
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| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrrorism Faculty of Arts |