CRJ 4040 - Global Jihad and U. S. Homeland Security

Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
Description: This course appraises Islamist resurgence/terrorism in local, regional and global perspectives, with special reference to its impact on U. S. Homeland Security. It examines the rise and growth of jihadism in the Muslim World and beyond in historical, socio-economic, political and cultural perspectives, and focuses as to how governance and identity crises in Muslim-majority countries and the Cold War and post-Cold War exigencies affected Islamism and terror outfits like al Qaeda, Taliban, Boko Haram, LeT, and the ISIS.