LSHS-450 Security and Development: The Nettlesome Nexus

Faculty:

Smaldone, Joseph

This course examines critical, current, and interrelated issues that lie at the nettlesome nexus of security and development in fragile or failed states experiencing or emerging from conflict. Each semester several specific topics are chosen for study, reflecting fresh thinking, best practices, lessons learned, new policy directions, and as always, academic and policy controversies. They generally include a selection of the following: the prevailing Third World security predicament; sources of political violence and civil conflict; how civil wars retard development, and how development retards civil wars; the impact of arms acquisitions and military spending on socioeconomic development; the need for integrated security-development strategies and policies for conflict prevention and postconflict statebuilding and peacebuilding; the linkages among public security, rule of law, political reform and democratic governance, sustainable socioeconomic development, security sector reform, human rights, and women's civic participation; and the contested roles of U.S. and international intervention and assistance programs.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

LSHS-450-01 Security and Development: The Nettlesome Nexus

Faculty:

Smaldone, Joseph

This course examines critical, current, and interrelated issues that lie at the nettlesome nexus of security and development in fragile or failed states experiencing or emerging from conflict. Each semester several specific topics are chosen for study, reflecting fresh thinking, best practices, lessons learned, new policy directions, and as always, academic and policy controversies. They generally include a selection of the following: the prevailing Third World security predicament; sources of political violence and civil conflict; how civil wars retard development, and how development retards civil wars; the impact of arms acquisitions and military spending on socioeconomic development; the need for integrated security-development strategies and policies for conflict prevention and postconflict statebuilding and peacebuilding; the linkages among public security, rule of law, political reform and democratic governance, sustainable socioeconomic development, security sector reform, human rights, and women's civic participation; and the contested roles of U.S. and international intervention and assistance programs.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

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• 2010-2011 Fall and Spring
• 2011-2012 Fall and Spring
• 2012-2013 Fall and Spring

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