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SEST-534 Globalization and Security
Spring only
This is a course on globalization and its security implications. We will deal with many intersections of globalization and security: the way it changes the incentives for war; its effect on the nature of wars being fought; the psycho-social reactions to globalization, and the implications for security (e.g. terrorism). We will examine the role of media and economics at the juncture of globalization and conflict; we’ll consider issues of culture, identity, neo-medievalism and the role of the state and the changing character of citizenship. We’ll critically assess some of the major contenders for the security environment that is emerging under the influence of globalization, including the clash of civilizations, end of history, Barnet’s core/periphery concept, and others. And we will do a number of specific case studies of how particular countries have had their lens on security, or their security challenges, affected by globalization.
This is not a hard-core rockets-and-bombs-and-globalization course; it is not strictly about proliferation, weapons, and the effort to control them. Nor is it largely an economics and political economy course—we’ll spend only about two weeks on that aspect of globalization. It will not deal with environmental questions.
Requirements
The course is built around readings and the careful assessment and discussion of them. There is one individual research paper; there is no final exam. Class participation is essential to the course and to your grade. The most common class will be a group dissection of the reading and the development of lessons and conclusions for the strategy paper. The required writing assignment is an 8- to 10-page research paper on some aspect of globalization and security, written and footnoted in traditional Chicago style. You can feel free to use class readings as half or so of your cited sources, but the assignment does require some outside research as well.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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