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Global Security

Course
2023-2024

Exchange students: please note this course has content overlap with International Security and cannot be taken in combination with it

Description

This course is an undergraduate survey of the theoretical foundations of security studies and contemporary issues in international security. Building on the first-year Introduction to International Relations, the course introduces students to general theories, concepts and debates in the subfield, and applies them to a set of more specific topics in present-day global security. The aim is to enable students to think in a more theoretically rigorous and analytic manner about security issues and understand their relation to the broader field of International Relations.

Course objectives

Objective 1: Enable students to think critically beyond state-centered conceptions of security.
Objective 2: Locate the study of global security within a broader historical and political context.

Mode of instruction

Lecture

Assessment method

Final exam, 50% Multiple Choice questions

The time and location of inspection and debriefing of the exam will be announced via Brightspace no later than the publication of the grades

Brightspace

All relevant information (syllabus, additional readings etc.) can be found on Brightspace one week before the start of the course.

Literature

Textbook: Williams, Paul and Matt McDonald, eds. 2018. Security Studies: An Introduction. 3rd edition. London: Routledge.
Additional readings will be announced in the syllabus, which will be available on Brightspace one week before the start of the course.

Registration

See 'Practical Information'

Timetable courses and exams

Timetable