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Jul 18, 2025
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SOSC 7366 - Contemporary Jihad in A Globalizing World: Isis, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban
Credits: 3
Examines the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and ISIS and their rising threat to the world. After the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks of 2001, the U.S. and its allies embarked on a war on terror whose objective was to destroy al-Qaeda and Osama bin-Laden’s terrorist base in Afghanistan; to crush Afghanistan’s Taliban regime; and to remove Saddam Hussein as leader of Iraq, a country proclaimed by President George W. Bush to be a member of “the axis of evil.” The ultimate intention of the U.S. was to foster democratic governments that could serve as models for the undemocratic and military regimes in the Middle East. When the recent Arab Spring led to a power vacuum in several Middle Eastern countries, critics blamed the lack of a unified global response and a failure of American leadership for the birth of ISIS. ISIS has become the most powerful jihadi militant group the contemporary world has ever seen, and has declared its intention to establish itself as the leader of a worldwide terrorist Islamic movement and to restore the Islamic Caliphate that was first established in the year 632 in the Arabian Peninsula. This course may be applied to the following curricular field concentrations: American studies; global studies (non-Western); human rights and social justice; gender studies; humanities.
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