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Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (08.04.2021)
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Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (08.04.2021)
Active participation and discussion – 50% Final essay (3 – 4.000 words) – 50% |
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Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (13.04.2021)
Available in Moodle. Basic recommended literature includes:
Ahmad, A. Jihad & Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2017). Akinola, O. – Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria: Between Islamic Fundamentalism, Politics, and Poverty. African Security 8/1 (2015). Azani, E. – The Hybrid Terrorist Organization: Hezbollah as a Case Study. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 36/11 (2013). Boeke, S. – Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: Terrorism, insurgency, or organized crime? Small Wars and Insurgencies 27/5 (2016). Byman, D. Al Qaeda, The Islamic State, and The Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2015). Doboš, B., M. Riegl - Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Limits on Territoriality of Daesh Affiliates. Civil Wars (2021). Doboš, B., M. Riegl and J. Landovský – Territoriality of Radical Islamist Groups: Security, Economy and Identity. Abingdon: Routledge (2021). Hansen, S. J. – Horn, Sahel, and Rift: Fault-Lines of the African Jihad. London: Hurst Publishers (2018). Jackson, R. H. and C. G. Rosberg – Why Africa's Weak States Persist: The Empirical and the Juridical in Statehood, World Politics 35/1(1982). Kadercan, B. – Territorial Logic of the Islamic State: an interdisciplinary approach. Territory, Politics, Governance (2019). Morier-Genoud, E. – The jihadist insurgency in Mozambique: origins, nature and beginning, Journal of Eastern African Studies 14/3 (2020). Sack, R. D. – Human Territoriality: A Theory. Annals of the Association of American Geography 73/1 (1983). Solomon, H. – Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Africa: Fighting Insurgency from Al Shabaab, Ansar Dine and Boko Haram (2014). Terpstra, N. – Rebel governance, rebel legitimacy, and external intervention: assessing three phases of Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Small Wars and Insurgencies 31/6 (2020). Varin, C. and D. Abubakar – Violent Non-State Actors in Africa: Terrorists, Rebels and Warlords. London: Palgrave Macmillan (2017). Zenn, J. – Boko Haram's Factional Feuds: Internal Extremism and External Interventions. Terrorism and Political Violence (2019). |
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Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (29.04.2021)
1) Introduction 2) Typology of violent non-state actors What are the violent non-state actors, how can we divide among them, problems with categorization of radical Islamist movements 3) Territoriality What territoriality and territory means, connection between territoriality and state, territoriality and non-state actors, evolution of political map 4) How to measure territoriality? Role of geography, demography and infrastructure, measurement through security/economy/identity 5) Territoriality of the global projects Al-Qaeda and Daesh 6) Islamism, nationalism and territory Hezbollah, Hamas, Taliban 7) Islamism, organized crime and territory Western Sahel and the Philippines 8) Islamism, state failure and territory Al-Shabaab and Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham 9) Islamism, harsh geography and territory Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Islamic State in Greater Sahara, Islamic State in Libya 10) Islamism, divided societies and territory Boko Haram and Ansar al-Sunna (Mozambique) 11) Limits to territoriality of radical Islamist groups Affiliates of Daesh 12) Seminar - setting up an Islamist protostate |