2016-2017
Issues in International Security
Category: International Relations
Code: IS 197
Level: 4
Credits: 15
Teaching Pattern
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Seminar
3 x 3hrs
3 x 3hrs
3 x 3hrs
3 x 3hrs
*you will be expected to do approximately 114 hours of independent study over the 4 weeks.
Outline
Over the last two decades, new sources of (in-)security have become the focus for academics and
policy makers, widening the security agenda to include such issues as climate change, global
pandemics and poverty. Moreover, the post-Cold War world has witnessed the resurfacing of largescale ethnic violence, the ascendance of global terrorist networks and a highly controversial ‘War on
Terror’.
This module introduces you to a broad range of issues that shape the contemporary study of
international security including: concepts of ‘national’ and ‘human’ security; the transformation of the
Western way of warfare; terrorism; civil wars and state failures; and Weapons of Mass Destruction.
1
SUMMER Session 2
Schedule
Session 1 Introduction: Security and Traditional approaches
Session 2 Critical Security Studies and Securitization Theory
Session 3 Feminist Security Studies
Session 4 Postcolonial Approaches
Session 5 Poststructuralism and essay discussion
Session 6 Movie and discussion
Session 7 Environmental Security
Session 8 Global Health and Security
Session 9 Human Security and Development
Session 10 Migration and Border Security
Session 11 Technology, Dataveillance and Warfare in the Information Age
Session 12 Terrorism and the "War Against Terror"
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students will be able to;
Show The development of an understanding of the core issues in Security Studies
Have an ability to critically assess issues/theory in oral and written formats
Exhibit the development of an initial understanding of the core theoretical paradigms of
Security Studies
Demonstrate the ability to relate core Security theories to contemporary issues and events in
global security
Have developed the demonstrable ability to consider pertinent issues in an essay format in an
academically acceptable way.
Contacts
Dan Watson
2
SUMMER Session 2
[email protected]
Indicative Reading List
Students will be provided with pdfs of the reading and will not be expected to purchase any texts before
the start of the module.
Core Reading List
Walt, Stephen, „The Renaissance of Security Studies‟, International Studies Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, 1991,
pp. 211-239.
Paris, Roland, „Human Security: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air?‟ International Security, vol. 26, no. 2, 2001, pp.
87-102.
Tim Dunne, Nicholas J. Wheeler 'We the Peoples': Contending Discourses of Security in Human Rights
Theory and Practice. International Relations, vol. 18, no. 1, 2004, pp. 9-23
Campbell, D, Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity, Revised Edition
(Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), Ch. 6 pp.133-168
Neumann, I , 'Russia as Central Europe's Constituting Other', East European Politics & Societies, Vol.7 No.2,
1993, pp. 349-369
Freedman, „The Transformation of Grand Strategy‟, The Transformation of Strategic Affairs, Adelphi Paper
379 (Abingdon: Routledge, 2006), pp. 27-48.
Shaw, M. (2005) „Rules of Risk-Transfer War‟, Chapter 4 of The New Western Way of War, Cambridge: Polity,
2005, pp 71-98. Smith, R. „Trends: Our Modern Operations‟, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the
Modern World (London: Penguin, 2006), pp. 267-305.
Arquilla, John, & Ronfeldt, David, „The Advent of Netwar (revsisited)‟ in Arquilla, John, & Ronfeldt, David,
eds., Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy (RAND, 2001) [available online at
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/MR1382.ch1.pdf]
Cronin, A K, 'Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism', International Security, Vol. 27 No.
3 (Winter 2002/03), pp.30-58
Levy, Marc, „Is the Environment a National Security Issue?‟ International Security, vol. 20, no. 2, 1995, pp.
35-62.
Deudney, Daniel, „The Case Against Linking Environmental Degradation and National Security‟, Millennium,
vol. 19, no. 3, 1990, pp. 461-476.
Goodhand, Jonathan and David Hulme, “From Wars to Complex Political Emergencies: Understanding
Conflict and Peace-building in the New World Disorder”, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1999, pp.1326.
Duffield, Mark, “Complex Emergencies and the Crisis of Developmentalism,” IDS Bulletin, Vol. 25, No. 4,
1994, http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/classics/duffield_25(4).pdf
Krause, Keith, Arms and the State: Patterns of Military Production and Trade, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995, Introduction and Chapter One.
3
SUMMER Session 2
Eyre, Dana P. and Mark C. Suchman, “Status, Norms, and the Proliferation of Conventional Weapons: An
Institutional Theory Approach,” in Katzenstein, Peter J. (ed.) The Culture of National Security: Norms and
Identity in World Politics, New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, pp. 79-113
Levy, Marc, „Is the Environment a National Security Issue?‟ International Security, vol. 20, no. 2, 1995, pp.
35-62.
Deudney, Daniel, „The Case Against Linking Environmental Degradation
University Library
The Library,
University of Sussex,
Brighton
BN1 9QL
Phone: 01273 678163
[email protected]
4
SUMMER Session 2