International Relations
Keywords
Learning outcomes
Having completed the study unit, the student will have a good grasp of the recent research literature in the field of peace and conflict studies. They will have deepened their knowledge in some of the key questions of peace and war and know the latest and most important theoretical approaches in the field.
Contents
The themes of the study unit entail causes of war and conflict, security studies and securitisation theory in particular, conflict resolution, mediation and normative questions about peace and war.
Modes of study
- Degree Programme Students
- Other Students
- Open University Students
- Doctoral Students
- Exchange Students
- Degree Programme Students
- Other Students
- Open University Students
- Doctoral Students
- Exchange Students
Evaluation
Numeric 1-5.Study materials
Study materials:
Beardsley, The Mediation Dilemma. Cornell UP 2011. (2 ECTS)
Floyd, Security and the Environment. Securitization Theory and US Environmental Security Policy. Cambridge University Press 2010. (2 ECTS) or
Balzacq (ed.), Securitization Theory. How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve. Routledge 2010. (e-literature) (2 ECTS)
Hansen, Security as Practice: Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War. Routledge 2006. (e-literature) (2 ECTS)
Harle, Ideas of Social Order in the Ancient World. Greenwood Press 1998 (3 ECTS) or
Harle, Enemy with a Thousand Faces. Praeger Publisher 2000. (3 ECTS)
Harvey, Explaining the Iraq War. Cambridge University Press 2011. (e-literature) (2 ECTS)
Keller - Allan (ed.), What is Just Peace? Cambridge University Press 2006. (e-literature) (2 ECTS)
Reid, The Biopolitics of the War on Terror. Routledge 2009 (2 ECTS) or
Dillon - Reid, The Liberal Way of War. Routledge 2009. (e-literature) (2 ECTS)
Vasquez,The War Puzzle Revisited. Cambridge University Press 2009. (e-literature) (3 ECTS)
Väyrynen, Culture and International Conflict Resolution. Manchester University Press 2001. (2 ECTS)
Wallensteen, Peace Research. Theory and Practice. Routledge 2011. (2 ECTS)
Belongs to following study modules
2018–2019
