This course explores the origins, motivations, and methods of political terrorism as well as possible responses to it. Questions to be addressed include: What is political terrorism? How is it like or unlike war, crime, or revolution? What factors?economic, political, religious, or ideological?feed terrorism? What methods?old and new?do or could terrorists employ? Could the ends of terrorists ever justify their means? How should nations generally, and the United States more specifically, respond to terrorism and its underlying causes?