Terrorism and Homeland Security

Jonathan R. White is professor of honors, emeritus, in the Frederik Meijer Honors College of Grand Valley State University. The founding director of GVSU's School of Criminal Justice, Dr. White was promoted to dean of social sciences and served there until he was summoned to the Bureau of Justice Assistance to direct the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) program after the attacks of 9/11. He conducted counterterrorism training for law enforcement and military forces in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and throughout the United States. A recognized expert on religious terrorism, Dr. White taught classes on national security, intelligence analysis and counterterrorism in the Meijer Honors College.

TERRORISM IN HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXTS.
1. The Shifting Definition of Terrorism.
2. Practical Criminology, Radicalization, and Types of Terrorism.
3. Terrorist Financing and Money Laundering.
4. Terrorism and the Media.
5. Force Multipliers, Gender Roles, and Tactics.
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: NATIONAL AND ETHNIC MOVEMENTS.
6. Long-Term Separatist Terrorism.
7. Nationalistic and Endemic Terrorisms.
8. Background to the Middle East.
9. Terrorism in Israel and Palestine.
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: IDEOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS.
10. Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Terrorism.
11. Jihadist Networks.
DOMESTIC TERRORISM AND HOMELAND SECURITY.
12. Domestic Terrorism.
13. An Introduction to Homeland Security.
14. Organizing Homeland Security.
15. Homeland Security and Constitutional Issues.
16. Law Enforcement, Homeland Security, and the Future Word Cited.