Introduction to Security Politics - Einzelansicht

In recent years, terrorism, mass violence, and inter-state war have (re)emerged as real or perceived threats to international security. This course aims to provide students with the building blocks to study and investigate security politics around the globe. It builds on Interational Relations Theory to investigate different issue areas of security politics - from classical fields such as interstate war and terrorism to more recently securitised fields such as migration. We examine contemporary security challenges and the role of states, non-state actors, and international institutions in providing or threatening international security all the way from the war in Ukraine, to US-China tensions and the Iran Nuclear Deal.

This Vertiefungsseminar looks at the theoretical and empirical explanations that have been offered by academic scholarship, which will help us understand these patterns. Students will be introduced to the core concepts and dominant approaches of the study of international security politics and have a chance to apply them across a range of current cases. The course offers space for exchange and collaboration among students: through discussions, presentations and other more creative forms of engagement. At the end of the course, students will be able to assess international security challenges from a variety of perspectives; and design independent research on issues related to security politics.

Prüfungsnebenleistung: aktive Mitarbeit (mündliche und schriftliche Mitarbeit und eine Kurzpräsentation).

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