INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Course Description

This course aims to provide students the necessary tools to conceptualize security. With the end of the Cold War, the international security environment has undergone a radical transformation, which also necessitated a critical redefinition of the concept of security. Therefore, the aim of this course is two-fold: to introduce students the traditional definitions of security, contemporary debates in international security theory, and to set new debates in the context of the current international security agenda. The course also aims to examine the dynamics behind the integration in the field of security.

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

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Course outcomes

1. 01 The course transmits to the students the knowledge required for understanding major international security issues.
2. 02 The students will also learn to examine the main dispute settlement mechanisms used in the field of international security studies.
3. 03 The course ultimately aims to develop the skills necessary for analysis of international security.

Course Syllabus

Reference Books & Course Materials

1. 01 Collins, A. (Ed.). (2022). Contemporary Security Studies (6th ed.). Oxford University Press.

Learning Outcomes

1. L01 The course outlines the knowledge required for understanding major international security issues. SOLO 3
2. L02 The students will also learn to examine the main dispute settlement mechanisms used in the field of international security studies. SOLO 3
3. L03 The course ultimately aims to develop the skills necessary for analysis of international security. SOLO 5

Program Outcomes

1. P01 1. Having the ability to understand and discuss international relations discipline by using an interdisciplinary methodology to merge the knowledge coming from sociology, economics, psychology, political sciences well as diplomatic history.
2. P02 2. Having an adequate knowledge of the history and the epochs of international system and being able to identify historical evolution of the contemporary world politics.
3. P03 3. Recognizing local, regional and international actors functioning within the international system.
4. P04 4. Understanding the legal framework of the current international system
5. P05 5. Ability to identify the relations between the key actors of the international system – the states – from a theoretical as well as multi-dimensional scientific and academic methods.
6. P06 6. Ability to analyse the roles and positions of the non-state actors – international organizations in particular – within the current world system.
7. P07 7. Ability to recognize political, socio-economic and cultural structures embedded in international relations.
8. P08 8. Exploring the roots of conflicts among the actors and produce solutions at local, regional and international levels with an analytical focus.
9. P09 9. Being able to understand the politics and the functioning of political institutions in theory and practice.
10. P10 10. Understanding the historical emergence of various political cultures and gaining ability to assess them comparatively.
11. P11 11. Prepare international relations graduates; having a vast knowledge, academic formation and skills to work in public offices, civil society organizations, international institutions and companies at local and global levels.
12. P12 12. To have moral and ethical understanding in the field of work.

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