Keywords

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the study unit, students understand changes related to war and its justification and changes in security paradigm. Students are able to critically analyse the effects of the changing security paradigm to politics and approach different security matters from the perspective of different security concepts.

Contents

Violence, war, new wars, just war, security, human security, gender and war.

Evaluation

Study materials

Two of the following:

Buzan – Hansen, The Evolution of International Security Studies. Cambridge University Press 2009  (e-book) (2 ECTS),

Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars. A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. Basic Books 2000. 3rd or 4th edition (2 ECTS),

Wibben, Feminist Security Studies. A Narrative Approach. Routledge 2011. (2  ECTS)

And the following articles (1 ECTS):

Newman, Critical human security studies. Review of International Studies, 36(1) 2010, pp. 77–94. (e-material)

Kaldor, In Defence of New Wars. Stability 2(1), 4, 1-16. (e-material)

Melander, Erik – Magnus Oberg –Jonathan Hall (2009), Are ‘New Wars’ More Atrocious? Battle Severity, Civilian Killed and Forced Migration Before and After the End of the Cold War, European Journal of International Relations, 15(3), pp. 505–536. (e-material)

Belongs to following study modules

2018–2019

Teaching

Archived Teaching Schedule. Please refer to current Teaching Shedule.

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