Admission requirements
Course for students enrolled in master program Crisis and Security Management.
Description
In a globalized world, security concerns and crises are no longer exclusively managed by states. International cooperation, multilateral laws and policies are increasingly expected to deal with phenomena including cyberspace security, organized crime, human trafficking, illegal migration, flooding, nuclear incidents or international terrorism. The internationalization of crisis and security management, however, raises questions concerning national sovereignty, the rule of law and accountability.
From an academic perspective this course addresses contemporary international security dilemmas as well as the measures that national governments employ to tackle these phenomena. The focus is on the Europeanization of Crisis and Security Management: the historical trajectory of both internal and external European security policies, European institutions, practices and the tension between the national level and the European level when it comes to dealing with cross-border security issues especially when they are hybrid threats or are at the nexus of internal and external security: glocal security.
Course objectives
Students are able to reconstruct the historical development of European security cooperation and differentiate between communautarian and intergovernmental forms of cooperation and their consequences in terms of multi-level governance, effectiveness, transparency, accountability and the power division between the main EU Institutions and the EU Member States.
Students are able to differentiate between internal and external dimensions of European security cooperation, the externalization of European internal security policies and apply this knowledge to current examples of European security cooperation in terms of institutions, structures and challenges.
Students are able to describe the intermingling between internal and external dimension of security and its consequences for the institutional structure of the European Union in terms of cooperation, coordination, power divisions and the actors involved
Students have advanced knowledge and understanding of the concept of hybrid threats and the consequences of the hybridization of threats in terms of actors, strategies, practices and consequences.
Students are able to map the main actors in the European security architecture and analyze and compare these main actors in terms of interests, competencies and power.
Students are able to map the main primary and secondary sources that inform research on European security cooperation and show understanding of the challenges in terms of validity and reliability of different data sources.
Students are able to translate main academic notions on European security cooperation in questions to, and discussions with professionals working in the field of European security cooperation.
Students are able to independently do academic research into a current example of European security cooperation, analyze this example by applying theoretical and conceptual notions that are central to this course and report on their research in a way that is compatible with the standard norms of writing academic papers.
Timetable
On the Public Administration front page of the E-guide you will find links to the website and timetables, uSis and Blackboard.
Mode of instruction
Seven lectures including guest lectures.
This course is compulsory.
Course Load
Total study load 140 hours
contact hours: 21
self-study hours: reading, preparing lectures, assignments, etc: 119 hours
Assessment method
Students have to write (mid-term assignment) a short literature review and apply the derived theoretical insights from the literature review to a contemporary international crisis topic (25% of total grade).
Students have to write a research paper (final assignment) in which they apply conceptual and theoretical insights to a current cross-border security topic (75% of total grade).
Failed partial grades weighing less than 30% should be compensated by a passed partial grade weighing more than 30%. The calculated grade must be at least 5,50 in order to pass the course.
You can find more information about assessments and the timetable exams on the website.
Details for submitting papers (deadlines) are posted on Blackboard.
On the Public Administration front page of the E-guide you will find links to the website, uSis and Blackboard.
Resit
Students will be permitted to resit an examination if they have a mark lower than 5.5 or with permission of the Board of Examiners.
Resit written exam
Students that want to take part in a resit for a written exam, are required to register via uSis. Use the activity number that can be found on the ‘timetable exams’.
Blackboard
Blackboard page will be available one week in advance.
Reading list
To be announced on Blackboard.
Registration
Use both uSis and Blackboard to register for every course.
Register for every course and workgroup via uSis. Some courses and workgroups have a limited number of participants, so register on time (before the course starts). In uSis you can access your personal schedule and view your results. Registration in uSis is possible from four weeks before the start of the course.
Also register for every course in Blackboard. Important information about the course is posted here.