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2022/2023

International Security 

Code: 104475 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2503778 International Relations OB 2 1

Contact

Name:
Juan Pablo Soriano Gatica
Email:
juanpablo.soriano@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
english (eng)
Some groups entirely in English:
Yes
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
No
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
No

Teachers

Juan Pablo Soriano Gatica

External teachers

Timothy Kaldas

Prerequisites

Prerequisites

 Although no formal prerequisites are mandatory, the program is designed for students with a general knowledge of contemporary international political history, and a general background on the main International Relations theories. Also, it is expected that students follow international news through quality sources.

 The course is taught in English, and all the instructions, exams and documents related to the organization and development of the course will be in English. Most of the readings are also in English. Therefore, it is expected that students  have a good knowledge of this language.

Objectives and Contextualisation

Course description

 This course is designed to offer a general introduction to the meaning, key concepts and relevant issues in contemporary international security studies. The course introduces students to different theoretical approaches which present different ways for theorizing security; and it assumes a broader perspective on security, not only of what security is and the means to achieve it, but also on whose security should be guaranteed or promoted, what is to be secured, and how is securing performed.

 By focusing on both traditional and non-traditional security issues, the course seeks to provide students with the theoretic and empirical basis for a better understanding of the complexity of contemporary security issues. Traditional approaches to international security will be critically contrasted with new perspectives on security (including human security, global security, security governance, comprehensive security, among others). 

The course is divided into five parts. After an introductory session, the first part, “Analytical framework”, includes the following topics: Thinking about international security, Defining security and Evolution of war and different forms of inter-sate violence. Part II, “Theorizing about international security: ‘classical’ approaches”, reviews four key classic ways to approach and analyze international security matters: Realism, Liberalism, Structuralism and historical materialism, and Peace studies. In Part III, “Theorizing about international security: contemporary approaches”, the students will be introduced to more recent ways for studying and analyzing international security issues, through: Social constructivism and securitization studies, Human security and development, and Critical and Feminist approaches to security. Part IV reviews the evolution of different traditional and non- traditional international security challenges. Depending on the evolution of the course, some of the following topics will be reviewed in detail: the impact of transnational organized crime; climate change, the environment and international security; or the international security implications of scientific and technological developments. The fifth part of the program includes: student’s presentations on key security issues in different regions of the world, and a closing session to highlight some of the key challenges for international security studies.

 A typical class will involve a combination of lecturing, collective discussion of assigned texts, analysis of relevant international security events, and the identification of the possible policy implications of the different conceptual approaches used to analyze international security issues.

 Course objectives

 The course is intended to help students to be able to:

  • Discuss and appraise the various meanings ascribed to international security in the academic and policy worlds.
  • Obtain a general understanding of the challenges of providing security both in theory and in the policy world.
  • Apply key international security approaches and concepts to particular security events in international relations and demonstrate an understanding of both traditional and new sources of insecurity.
  • Relate theoretical approaches to international peace and security and apply them to contemporary security problems and address the “pros” and “cons” of various approaches to achieve international security.
  • Reflect critically on the key security issues arising in the contemporary world.
  • Develop basic skills to critically analyze, evaluate, and write security policy.

Competences

  • Analyse cases and phenomena in the international sphere and interpret different political texts using contemporary political theories.
  • Analyse the behaviour of international actors, both state and non-state.
  • Analyse the challenges to international security including the conditions that promote peace and generate conflicts and the evolutionary of international security architecture.
  • Analyse the production and implementation of public policies related to the international sphere, in particular foreign policy and security and defence policy.
  • Analyse the structure and operation of international institutions and organisations (political, economic, military and security, environmental, development and emergency aid) both in the universal and regional spheres, with particular emphasis on the European Union, from either real or simulated cases.
  • Apply quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques in research processes.
  • Identify data sources and carry out rigorous bibliographical and documentary searches.
  • Identify the main theories of international relations and their different fields (international theory, conflicts and security, international politics, etc.) to apply them in professional practice.
  • Make changes to methods and processes in the area of knowledge in order to provide innovative responses to society's needs and demands.
  • Produce and prepare the presentation of intervention reports and/or proposals.
  • Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
  • Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
  • Use metatheoretical data to argue and establish plausible relation of causality and establish ways of validating or rejecting them.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyse public policies in specific countries, in particular foreign policies, and understand the traits of continuity and change in historical perspective.
  2. Analyse the behaviour of different actors in the main topics and problems related to international security, international conflicts and the promotion of peace.
  3. Apply different theories and focuses to the analysis of the main problems related to security, foreign policy and armed conflict and the promotion of peace.
  4. Apply quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques in research processes.
  5. Evaluate the conditions that lead to international peace and those which make it more difficult.
  6. Identify and analyse some of the key challenges in international security and international conflicts from a multidimensional perspective.
  7. Identify data sources and carry out rigorous bibliographical and documentary searches.
  8. Identify the main institutions with competences and working in international security, international conflicts and the promotion of peace and analyse the specific importance of these.
  9. Make a reasoned application of different contemporary political theories to phenomena related to international security, international conflicts, foreign policies of the main states and the promotion of peace.
  10. Produce and prepare the presentation of intervention reports and/or proposals.
  11. Propose new experience-based methods or alternative solutions.
  12. Propose new ways to measure success or failure when implementing ground-breaking proposals or ideas.
  13. Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
  14. Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
  15. Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  16. Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
  17. Use metatheoretical data to argue and establish plausible relation of causality and establish ways of validating or rejecting them.
  18. Use tools for the analysis of foreign policies and apply them to real and simulated case studies.
  19. Weigh up the risks and opportunities of one's own ideas for improvement and proposals made by others.
  20. describe the evolution of international security.

Content

 Contents. Course structure

 

General introduction. Brief presentation of the objectives, contents and assessment of the course.

 

Part I. Analytical framework

1. Thinking about international security

2. Defining security.

3. The evolution of war and different forms of inter-sate violence

 

Part II. Theorizing about international security: “classical” approaches

4. Realism

5. Liberalism

6. Structuralism and historical materialism

7. Peace studies

 

Part III. Theorizing about international security: “contemporary” approaches

8. Social constructivism and securitization studies

9. Human security and development

10. Critical and feminist approaches to security.

 

Part IV. Traditional and non- traditional international security challenges

11. Depending on the evolution of the course, at least two of the following topics will be reviewed in detail.

-       The competition among great powers: implications for international security

-       The impact of transnational organized crime on global security

-       Climate change, the environment and international security

-       Global health: international security implications

 

Part V. Student’s presentations and Conclusions

12. Student’s presentations on key security issues in different regions ofthe world.

-       Africa: Mediterranean and sub-SaharanAfrica

-       Europe: Western and Eastern Europe

-       Asia: Central Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia

-       Americas: North, Central, South and the Caribbean

13. Conclusion: challenges for the future of international security studies 

Methodology

The workload for the students of this course is divided into different types of activities, each of them with a specific number of working hours.

 - Directed activities. These activities are done under the direction of the instructors and include: lectures (with the support of information and communications technologies, and with debates during class); and, seminars and practical sessions in small groups to discuss different case studies and the diverse empirical examples included in the program.

 - Supervised activities. These activities are carried out by each student outside the classroom and according to a work schedule designed, supervised and evaluated by the instructors. These activities include tutorships for the preparation of essays, exams and group projects.

 - Autonomous activities. These are all the activities performed by the students on their own and according to the requirements for successfully passing the course, such as autonomous studying hours, and preparation of essays, seminars, and exams.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Directed activities in the classroom with the support of ICT 45 1.8 2, 1, 3, 20, 6, 8, 16, 5
Seminars and practical sessions in small groups 4 0.16 9, 4, 21, 6
Type: Supervised      
Tutorships for the preparation of essays, exams and group projects 4 0.16 4, 10, 15, 18
Type: Autonomous      
Autonomous studying hours, preparation of essays, seminars, exams 90 3.6 2, 9, 4, 10, 20, 7, 6, 8, 16, 15, 13, 14, 5

Assessment

Assessment

 The evaluation includes the following four parts: 

  1. Participation in class and other activities (10 % of the grade).
  2. Individual exercise (15% of the grade).
  3. Group project in the format of a policy paper (30% of the grade: 20% written paper; 10% oral presentation of preliminary findings).
  4. Midterm Exam including topics 1 to 7 (45% of the grade). Important: there is no final exam for this course.

  

Group Project.

The group project will consist of a paper and the oral presentation of the preliminary findings. The objective is to provide a deeper understanding of key contemporary security issues. This paper will include some of the analytical tools learned during the course. The draft versions of the papers will be presented orally to the whole group at the end of the semester. Depending on the total number of students registered for the course, the groups will be formed by 4-6 students. Further instructions will be provided during the first weeks of the course.

  

Important considerations

 In order to pass the course, it will be necessary, but not sufficient, to obtain a grade of at least 5,0/10 in the midterm exam. Once this minimum grade of 5,0 is attained, the final grade of the course will be the result of adding the grades obtained in the other activities.

Once the final grade of the course is equal or above 5,0 the student will receive a passing grade. If the student completes more than 50% of the activities to be evaluated, this cancels the possibility of receiving a grade of "NOT PRESENTED" (NO PRESENTANT - NO PRESENTADO).

The date of all evaluable activities will be announced with enough time in advance. This will allow students to prepare and complete all the assigned tasks.

The students that do not passthe midterm exam in the first opportunity, will have the chance to re-take it at the end of the semester, on the day specified by the Faculty for the compensatory evaluation. The individual exercise, the final group project and other in-class activities cannot be re-taken or re-submitted on a different date from the one established by the lecturers.

 

 Plagiarism and cheating. Plagiarism and cheating are very serious offenses. These could result in a failing grade for the assigned task/exercise.

 Please review the “Guia sobre Com Citar i Com Evitar el Plagi” (in Catalan), prepared by the Facultat de Ciències Polítiques i de Sociologia: https://www.uab.cat/doc/GuiaCitesiPlagiEstudiants

Also check the guides prepared by the Libraries Service of the UAB (Servei de Biblioteques):

- “How to cite and create your bibliography”, available at: https://www.uab.cat/web/study-and-research/citations-and-bibliography-1345738248581.html

- “Com citar i elaborar la bibliografía”, available at: https://www.uab.cat/web/estudia-i-investiga/com-citar-i-elaborar-la-bibliografia-1345708785665.html

-  “Cómo citar y elaborar la bibliografía”, available at: https://www.uab.cat/web/estudia-e-investiga/como-citar-y-elaborar-la-bibliografia-1345733232823.html  

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Group project 30% 2 0.08 2, 1, 9, 21, 10, 6, 19, 11, 12, 15, 13, 14, 18
Individual exercise 15% 2 0.08 1, 3, 9, 4, 17, 10, 7, 6, 8, 16, 15, 5
Midterm exam (topics 1-7) 45% 2 0.08 2, 3, 9, 20, 6, 8, 16
Participation in debates and other activities 10% 1 0.04 2, 10, 6, 15, 14

Bibliography

Bibliography

 

The key texts for this course are: 

Caballero-Anthony, Melly (Ed.) (2015). An introduction to non-traditional security studies: a transnational approach. Sage. Electronic version available at UAB libraries.

Collins, Alan (Ed.) (2019). Contemporary Security Studies. Oxford University Press. 5th edition. Alternatively, other editions can be consulted.

Neack, Laura (2017). National, international, and human security: A comparative introduction. Rowman & Littlefield. Electronic version available at UAB libraries.

Williams, Paul D. (2013). Security Studies: An Introduction. Routledge. 2nd edition. Alternatively, other editions can be consulted.

 

Other highly recommended readings are:

Baylis, John, Wirtz, James, & Gray, Colin (Eds.). (2016). Strategy in the contemporary world. 6th edition Oxford University Press.c Alternatively, other editions can be used.

Browning, Christopher S. (2013). International security: a very short introduction. OUP Oxford.

Dannreuther, Roland (2013). International Security: The Contemporary Agenda. Polity press. 2nd edition. Alternatively, other editions can be consulted.

Demurtas, Alessandro (2021). "La naturaleza cambiante del fenómeno terrorista en posguerra fría: evolución de las formas de analizarlo y afrontarlo en el marco OCDE comparando el enfoque europeo y el estadounidense." Libros Universidad Nacional Abierta ya Distancia, pp.: 97-116. 

Hough, Peter (2013). Understanding global security. 3rd edition. Routledge.

Jordá, Javier (coord.) (2013). Manual de estudios estratégicos y seguridad internacional. Plaza y Valdés. Electronic version available at UAB libraries.

Soriano,Juan Pablo (2021). “Los estudios de seguridad: orígenes, evolución, herramientas y debates en curso”, en R. Grasa y C. Rodríguez (coord.). Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales: un mundo y una disciplina en proceso de cambio. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional y aDistancia, UNAD.

Soriano, Juan Pablo (2021). "Ciencia, tecnología y relaciones internacionales: historias de poder, de esperanza y de normas e identidades. Revista electrónica de estudios internacionales (REEI), (42), 1.

 

Electronic books available at the website of UABLibraries (list updated July 2022)

Caballero-Anthony, Mely (2018). Negotiating governance on non-traditional security in Southeast Asia and beyond. Columbia University Press.

Gamba, Samaila Liman (2019). Approaches to International Peace and Security and Its Prospects. Lambert Academic Publishing.

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Toje, Asle (Ed.) (2018). Will China's Rise be Peaceful? The Rise of a Great Power in Theory, History, Politics, and the Future. Oxford University Press.

 

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Recommended academic journals on international security and international relations 

-       American Political Science Review

-       Anuario Internacional CIDOB

-       British Journal of Political Science

-       British Journal of Politics & International Relations

-       Bulletin of Latin American Research

-       China Quarterly

-       Chinese Journal of International Politics

-       Conflict Management and Peace Science

-       Cooperation and Conflict

-       Colombia Internacional

-       European Journal of International Relations

-       European Journal of Political Research

-       European Political Science Review

-       Foreign Affairs

-       Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica

-       Foreign Policy Analysis

-       Geopolitics

-       Global Society

-       International Affairs

-       International Feminist Journal of Politics

-       International Organization

-       International Political Science Review

-       International Security

-       International Studies Quarterly

-       International Studies Review

-       Journal of Conflict Resolution

-       Journal of International Relations and Development

-       Journal of Modern African Studies

-       Journal of Peace Research

-       Journal of Strategic Studies

-       Latin American Politics and Society

-       Mediterranean Politics

-       Nueva Sociedad

-       Pacific Review

-       Política Exterior

-       Review of International Studies

-       Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional

-       Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals

-       Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales

-       Revista Española de Derecho Internacional

-       Security Dialogue

-       Security Studies

-       Terrorism and Political Violence

-       The Political Quarterly

-       World Policy Journal

-       World Politics

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