Exchange students: please note this course has content overlap with Global Security and cannot be taken in combination with it
Description
This course offers an undergraduate survey of the theoretical foundations of security studies and contemporary issues in international security. Building on the first-year course Introduction to International Relations, the course deepens students’ understanding of the general theories, concepts and debates in the subfield and applies these theories and concepts to a set of more specific topics in present-day international 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 international security within a broader historical and political context.
Mode of instruction
Lecture.
Assessment method
Final exam (3 hrs) consisting of 50% multiple choice questions and 50% open 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.
Reading list
Textbook: Williams, Paul and Matt McDonald, eds. 2023. Security Studies: An Introduction. 4th 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
See 'MyTimetable'