GLOBAL SECURITY ARCHITECTURE (4 Credits)

Learning outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: identify contemporary and emerging security challenges and the changing nature of global security architecture; describe key concepts and theories used to understand major relationships, mechanisms, and roles of global bodies and regional agencies in international security; discuss how contemporary security challenges are managed at the regional and global level; apply the acquired conceptual frameworks into cases with a view toward regional and global security management.

Topics:

1. Exercise I;
2. Exercise II;
3. Exercise III;
4. Case Studies: Military Security Challenges;
5. Case Studies: Non-Military Security Challenges;
6. Multilateral Security Alliances;
7. Collective Security Organizations I;
8. Collective Security Organizations II;
9. Perspectives on Global Security;
10. Guest Lecture: Global Security Challenges in the Changing World;
11. Regional and Global Security Alliances;
12. Cooperative and Comprehensive Security Arrangements;
13. Introduction to Global Security Architecture.