Threats and Conflicts in the Contemporary World

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Work on open sources that focus on current regional conflicts and on the phenomenon of terrorism as a form of asymmetric and low intensity conflict. Preparation of analyzes of these phenomena from open sources. Participation in the collective work of discussion of sources and methods.

Learning Outcomes

To understand the phenomenon of conflicts and threats in today's world. The attention will be directed mainly to the low-intensity conflicts that developed after the system of two blocks, namely the so-called "regional conflicts" of potential expansion to other regions of the world. To study the phenomenon of Jihadism and turmoil in the Islamic World and its impact on Western countries, its links to organized crime and the phenomena of population movements.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Threat and Risk Assessment.

2. Geostrategy in Global Society.

3. Eastern Europe After the "Cold War".

4. Formal and Informal Security.

5. Information Systems.

6. Immigration and Border Security.

7. Islam and the Islamic World.

8. Jihadist terrorism.

9. Anti-Terrorism and Counter-terrorism.

10. Forms of Financing Terrorist Organizations.

11. Systems of Organized Crime.

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

1. Pedro Gomes BARBOSA (coord.), As Teias do terror, Lisboa, 2007.

2. Anthony PAGDEN, Mundos em Guerra, Lisboa, 2009.

3. General Wesley K. CLARK, Vencer as Guerras Modernas, Lisboa, 2004.

4. Phillip BOBBIT, Terror and Consent. The Wars for the twenty-first Century, Londres, 2009.

5. Thierry WOLTON, 4e Guerre Mondiale, Paris, 2005.