NS4880 Seminar on Legal and Military Responses to Political Violence

The course will first review the variety of legal and military policy options open to any state that confronts political violence, with particular attention to short versus long-term consequences of different policy options. It then analyzes a few individual cases (the British in Ulster, violence in Spain) in depth, in order to assess how different policy options combine or cancel each other.

Prerequisite

Consent of Instructor

Lecture Hours

4

Lab Hours

0

Course Learning Outcomes

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

• classify different incidents of political violence from a comparative perspective.
• assess a number of policy tools (political, judicial, military) available to combat political violence.
• evaluate the effects of different policy options.