Keywords

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the study unit, students understand how international institutions work for peace and security and how they have answered to both local and global challenges. Students are able analyse and evaluate critically their functioning in the field of peace and security.

Contents

Peace, collective security, international and regional organisations, challenges for peace operations/crises management.

Evaluation

Study materials

Thakur (2006), The United Nations, Peace and Security. From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. (e-book) (3 ECTS)

and one of the following:  

Tavares, Regional security: the capacity of international organizations. Routledge 2009. (e-book) (2 ECTS)

Special Issue: UN Peacekeeping and the Use of Force. Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 37(5), 2014. (e-material) (2  ECTS)

Kronsell-Svedberg (eds), Making Gender, Making War. Violence, Military and Peacekeeping Practices.  Routledge 2012. (e-book) (2 ECTS)

Belongs to following study modules

2018–2019

Teaching

Archived Teaching Schedule. Please refer to current Teaching Shedule.

POLKVA43 YK-päivä

POLKVA43 Rauha, turvallisuus ja kansainväliset instituutiot (kirjatentti/essee)

POLKVA43 Peace, Security and International Institutions (book exam/essay)

POLKVA43 Ydinaseet ja kansainvälinen politiikka

For Open University students only

POLKVA43 YK-päivä

POLKVA43 Ydinaseet ja kansainvälinen politiikka