Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE DST5208

 
TITLE Security Issues and Conflict

 
UM LEVEL 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course

 
MQF LEVEL 7

 
ECTS CREDITS 4

 
DEPARTMENT Centre for the Study and Practice of Conflict Resolution

 
DESCRIPTION This study-unit will provide a theoretical review of the concept of security, including an analysis of security risks and threats in contemporary international relations. This will include identifying the main national and transnational security priorities that the state is seeking to address at a global and regional level. Sectors that will be examined include hard and soft security issues such as military procurement, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, human trafficking, environmental degradation and energy security.

List of Required Text Books

- Elizabeth Pond, Endgame in the Balkans: Regime Change, European Style. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2006.
- Emil Kirchner and James Spelling, EU security governance, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007.
- Michael E. Brown, ‘New Global Dangers’, in Chester A. Crocker et al (eds), Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World,

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Assessment Due Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Assignment SEM2 Yes 100%

 
LECTURER/S Lucy Paterson

 

 
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