Simon Cottee

Academic and Author

Terrorism & Modern Society

Following the events of September 11 2001 public concerns surrounding the related threats associated with terrorism have inevitably deepened. This course provides a general introduction to terrorism and poses a series of questions that rarely feature in mainstream criminological and sociological discourse. Central elements of the course include an examination of the historical roots of terrorism; an analysis of threat posed by the various terrorist factions associated with the ‘global Salafi jihad’; the contextualization of terrorism within the context of late modernity; and an analysis of terrorism at the macro, meso, and micro levels.