International Security and Conflict

Academic Year 2015-2016
International Security and Conflict
Degree: Grau en Dret (Law Degree)
Year: 3rd/4th
Term: September
Number of ECTS credits: 4
Total study hours: 100 hours
Language: English
Lecturers: Dr. Pablo Pareja Alcaraz (40.1E06) / Jordi Quero Arias
1. Brief description of the course
The course International Security and Conflict is an elective course within the
Degree in Law that seeks three complementary goals: first, it aims at familiarizing
students with the main notions and theoretical approaches to the study of contemporary
security and conflict; second, it analyzes the evolution of contemporary conflict, as well
as the transformation of conventional and non-conventional challenges to global
security; third, it explores some conflicts and security challenges particularly relevant
for the understanding of contemporary security and, more broadly, international
relations.
Students enrolling in this course are not required to have previous studies in
International Relations. In addressing each of the units, the course will also reflect on
the importance of Public international Law paying special attention to both its
potentialities and limits to avoid contemporary sources of conflict and insecurity.
2. Syllabus
PART I. CONTEMPORARY
TRANSFORMATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND
CONFLICT
Unit 1: Theoretical approaches to security: pessimistic, optimistic and alternative
visions.
Unit 2: Armed conflict: evolution, transformation and main features of contemporary
armed conflict.
Unit 3: The global private security market: evolution, features and main implications
of the privatization of security.
Unit 4: The main dimensions of contemporary security.
PART II. THE MAP OF CONTEMPORARY (IN)SECURITY AND ARMED CONFLICT
Unit 5: Conflict, sovereignty and geopolitics: the Arab-Israeli conflict and the
dispute over Taiwan.
Unit 6: Conflict and nuclearization: the North Korean challenge.
Unit 7: Conflict and natural resources: the Arctic dispute and the conflicts around
the East and South China Seas.
Unit 8: Conflict, ethnicity and Human Rights: the Rwandan genocide.
Unit 9: Conflict and transnational crime: piracy in the Indian Ocean and drug
trafficking in Central/South America.
Unit 10: Conflict and State fragility: the partition of Sudan and South Sudan.
3. Competences and skills
This course aims to develop a comprehensive set of competences and skills:
G1. Students’ capacity to critically analyze and identify the core ideas and concepts for
the study of the contemporary international system.
G2. Students’ ability to organize themselves and to plan ahead.
G3. Students’ capacity to communicate their ideas.
G4. Students’ capacity to address and solve theoretical problems and challenges.
G5. Students’ motivation and capacity to engage in critical debate.
G6. Students’ ethical commitment.
G8. Students’ capacity to work in group and to adapt to changing working scenarios.
G9. Students’ ability to autonomous learning.
E6. Students’ capacity to elaborate legal and policy-oriented documents.
E8. Students’ capacity to identify the different sources of Law, the latter’s historical
evolution and its current form and challenges.
4. Evaluation
The evaluation of this course comprises two different components:
a) Attendance and active participation in two seminars. This component is worth 40%
of the course’s final grade.
b) A final exam based on both the content of the lectures and the list of readings
available through “Aula Global”. This component is worth 60% of the course’s final
grade. This exam will take place at the end of the course.
Students who fail to obtain a final grade of 5,0 or above have the right to re-take both
components during the extraordinary exam period if (and only if) they meet the two
following conditions: 1) having participated and submitted the activities of the two
seminars; and 2) having delivered the final exam. This second exam will include two
parts, each of which will be directly connected to the two components described above.
5. Calendar and activities (10-13hs.; 5-16 September)
Week
Session
1
1
2
3
Date
Monday, 5 Sept.
Tuesday, 6 Sept.
Wednesday, 7 Sept.
Description
Introduction to the course
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Study hours
In-class
Outside
3
3
3
3
3
5
4
5
6
7
2
8
Thursday, 8 Sept.
Friday, 9 Sept.
Monday, 12 Sept.
Tuesday, 13 Sept.
Wednesday, 14 Sept.
9
Thursday, 15 Sept.
10
Friday, 16 Sept.
Study hours (weeks 1-2)
Study for the final exam
Total study hours
Unit 4
Unit 5
Seminar 1
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Seminar 2
Unit 9
Unit 10
3
2
1
3
3
1
2
3
3
30
5
4
5
5
3
3
4
40
30
100 hours
6. List of references
6.1. Basic, general references
Avant, D., “Introduction”, en The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing
Security, Nueva York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, cap. 1.
Dexter, H., “New Wars”, en G.H. Fagan y R. Munck, Globalization and Security: an
Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara: Praeger Security International, 2009, cap. 15.
Elbe, S., “Health and Security”, en A. Collins,. Contemporary Security Studies, 2ª ed.,
Oxford/Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 2010, cap. 24.
Hough, P., “The Securitization of issues”, “Environmental threats to security” y
“Criminal threats to security”, Understanding Global Security, 2ª ed., Abingdon,
Oxon/Nueva York: Routledge, 2008, caps. 1, 6 y 10.
Jackson, R., Smyth, M. y Gunning, J., “Terrorism”, en G.H. Fagan y R. Munck,
Globalization and Security: an Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara: Praeger Security
International,2009, capítulo 15.
Kaldor, M., “Las viejas guerras”, en Las nuevas guerras. La violencia organizada en la
era global, Barcelona: Tusquets (1ª ed. en inglés, 1999), 2001, cap. 2.
Kay, S., “The Quest for Power”, en Global Security in the Twenty First Century. The
Quest for Power and the Search for Peace, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006,
cap. 2.
Kerr, P., “Human Security”, en A. Collins, Contemporary Security Studies, 2ª ed.,
Oxford/Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 2010, cap. 8.
Kirchner, E., “Regional and Global Security. Changing Threats and Institutional
Responses”, en E. Kirchner y J. Sperling, Global Security Governance: Competing
Perceptions of Security in the Twenty First Century, Nueva York/Londres:
Routledge, 2007, cap. 1.
Rogers, P., “Learning from the Cold War”, en Losing control. Global Security in the
Twenty-first Century, Londres: Pluto Press, 2010, cap. 2.
Wæver, O., “Securitization and Desecuritization”, en R.D. Lipschutz, On Security,
Nueva York: Columbia University Press, 1995, cap. 3.
La responsabilidad de proteger, Informe de la Comisión internacional sobre
intervención y soberanía de los Estados, International Development Research Centre,
2001.
6.2. Additional references
Alexandra, A.; Baker, D.P.; Caparini, M., Private military and security companies:
ethics, policies and civil-military relations, Londres: Routledge, 2008.
Attinà, F. y Irrera D. (eds.), Multilateral Security and ESDP Operations, Farnham:
Ashgate Publishers, 2010.
Avant, D., The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security, Nueva
York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Balzacq, T. (ed.), Securitization Theory: how security problems emerge and dissolve,
New Security Studies, Abingdon, Oxon/Nueva York: PRIO/Routledge, 2011.
Baylis, J.; Wart, E.;. Cohen, C.; Gray, S., Strategy in the Contemporary World. An
Introducion to Strategic Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Beck, U., La sociedad del riesgo global, Madrid: Siglo XXI, 2002.
Booth, K. y Dunne, T. (eds.), Worlds in Collision. Terror and the Future of Global
Order, Houndmill: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Booth, K. y Wheeler, N., The Security Dilemma. Fear, Cooperation and Trust in World
Politics, Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Bremer Maerli, M. y Lodgaard, S. (eds.), Nuclear Proliferation and International
Security, New York: Routledge, 2007.
Buzan, B., Regions and Powers: the Structure of International Security, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Buzan, B. y Hansen, L., The Evolution of International Security Studies, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Buzan, B.; Waever, O.; De Wilde, J., Security: A New Framework for Analysis,
Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998.
Chesterman, S. y Lehnardt, C. (eds.), From Mercenaries to Market: the Rise and
Regulation of Private Military Companies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Cohen-Tanugi, L., The Shape of the World to Come. Charting the geopolitics of a new
century, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Collins, A., Contemporary Security Studies, 2ª ed., Oxford/Nueva York: Oxford
University Press, 2010.
Dannreuther, R., International security: the contemporary agenda, Cambridge: Polity
Press, 2007.
Duffield, M., Global Governance and the New Wars. The Merging of Development and
Security, Londres/Nueva York: Zed Books, 2001.
Duffield, M., Las guerras en el mundo global. La convergencia entre desarrollo y
seguridad, Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata 2004 (1ª ed. en inglés, 2001).
Fagan, GH. y Munck, R. (eds.), Globalization and Security: an Encyclopedia, Santa
Barbara: Praeger Security International, 2009.
García, C. y Rodrigo, Á. (eds.), La seguridad comprometida. Nuevos desafíos,
amenazas y conflictos armados, Madrid: Tecnos, 2008.
Græger, N., “Environmental Security?”, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 33, nº 1, 1996,
pp. 109-116.
Hobswaw, E., Guerra y paz en el siglo XXI, Barcelona: Crítica, 2006.
Hough, P., Understanding Global Security, 2ª ed., Abingdon, Oxon/Nueva York:
Routledge, 2008.
Kaldor, M., Las nuevas guerras. La violencia organizada en la era global, Barcelona:
Tusquets, 2001 (1ª ed. en inglés, 1999).
Kaldor, M., Human Security, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007.
Kay, S., Global Security in the Twenty First Century. The Quest for Power and the
Search for Peace, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
Kirchner, E. y Sperling J. (eds.), Global Security Governance: Competing Perceptions
of Security in the Twenty First Century, Nueva York/Londres: Routledge, 2007.
Kolko, G., Another century of war?, Nueva York: The Free Press, 2002.
Kolodziej, E. A., Security and International Relations, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005.
Krahman, E. (ed.), New Threats and New Actors in International Security, New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Lipschutz, R. D., On Security, Nueva York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Mandel, R., Armies without States: the Privatization of Security, Londres: Lynne
Rienner, 2002.
Martin, G., Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives and Issues, Londres:
Sage, 2003.
Mauer, V., Handbook of Security Studies, Abingdon, Oxon/Nueva York: Routledge,
2009.
Mearsheimer, J.J., The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, New York: W.W. Norton &
Company, 2001.
Morgan, P. M., International Security: problems and solutions, Washington, DC: CQ
Press, 2006.
Picciotto, R. y Weaving, R. (eds), Security and Development. Investing and Peace and
Security, Londres, Routledege, 2006.
Picciotto, R.; Olonisakin, F.; Clarke, M., Global Development and Human Security,
New Brunswick: Transaction, 2007.
PNUD Informe sobre el desarrollo humano. Nuevas dimensiones de la Seguridad
Humana, Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Rogers, P., Losing control. Global Security in the Twenty-first Century, Londres: Pluto
Press, 2000.
Ruiz-Giménez, I., La historia de la intervención humanitaria. El imperialismo altruista,
Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata, 2005.
Russet, B. (ed.), International Security and Conflict, Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate,
2008.
Sanchéz Cano, J., El debate sobre el concepto de seguridad 1980-1997, Barcelona:
Institut de Ciènces Polítiques i Socials, 1999.
Sheehan, M., International Security: an Analytical Survey, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 2005.
Singer, P. W., Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, Ithaca,
Nueva York: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Snyder, C. A. (ed.), Contemporary security and strategy, Oxon, Abingdon/Nueva York:
Routledge, 1999.
Spring, U.O. y Braunch, H.S. (eds.), Reconceptualizar la seguridad en el siglo XXI,
Mosbach: AFES-PRESS, 2009.
Takur, R., The United Nations, Peace and Security, Cambridge: Cambridge UO, 2006.
Wheeler, N. J., Humanitarian Intervention in International Society, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2000.
Williams, P., Security Studies: An Introduction, Abingdon, Oxon/Nueva York:
Routledge, 2008.
Zedner, L., Security, Londres: Routledge, 2009.
6.3. Other resources
6.3.1. Internet sources
Security and Peace Institutes and Think Tanks
African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) http://www.accord.org.za/
Alliance for Peacebuilding - http://www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org/
Berghof Research Centre for Constructive Conflict Management http://www.berghof-center.org/
Beyond Intractability.org - http://www.beyondintractability.org/
British American Security Information Council (BASIC) - http://www.basicint.org
Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee (CPCC) http://www.peacebuild.ca/
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) - http://www.csis.org
Centro de Educación e Investigación para la Paz (CEIPaz) - http://www.ceipaz.org/
Combatants for Peace - http://www.combatantsforpeace.org
Conflict Resolution Information Source - http://www.crinfo.org/
Escuela de Cultura de Paz - http://www.escuelaculturadepaz.org/
European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation http://www.conflict-prevention.net/
E u r o p e a n
U n i o n
I n s t i t u t e
f o r
S e c u r i t y
S t u d i e s
( E U I S S )
http://www.iss-eu.org/
Field Diplomacy Initiative - http://www.fielddiplomacy.be/
Genocide Watch – http://www.genocidewatch.org
George
C.
Marshall
European
http://www.marshallcenter.org
Center
–
George
Washington
University
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
for
National
Security
Security
Studies
-
Archive
-
Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict - http://www.gppac.net/
Global Security - http://www.globalsecurity.org/
Heidelberger Institut für Internationale Konfliktforschung (HIIK) / Heidelberg
Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK) - http://www.hiik.de/
Human Security Centre - http://www.hsrgroup.org/
Human Security Gateway - http://www.humansecuritygateway.info/
Human Security Network – http://www.humansecuritynetwork.org
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution - http://icar.gmu.edu/
Institute for Conflict Management, New Delhi http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/icm/index.html
International Alert - http://www.international-alert.org/
International
Coalition
for
http://responsibilitytoprotect.org
the
Responsibility
to
Protect
–
International Conflict Research (INCORE) - http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/
International Crisis Group - http://www.crisisgroup.org
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) - http://www.iiss.org/
International Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) - http://www.prio.no/
International Security Network - http://www.isn.ethz.ch/index.cfm
International Security Resources - http://www.internationalsecurityresources.com/
Peacemakers Trust - http://www.peacemakers.ca/
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs - http://www.pugwash.org
Responsibility to Protect – Engaging
http://www.responsibilitytoprotect.org/
Civil
Society
(R2PCS)
Saferworld, London, UK - http://www.saferworld.org.uk/
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) - http://www.sipri.org
The Carter Center - http://www.cartercenter.org
Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research - http://www.toda.org/
Transcend: A Peace and Development Network - http://www.transcend.org/
-
U.S.
Army
War
College
Strategic
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/
Studies
Institute
-
Central
Intelligence
Agency
–
The
World
Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
-
United States Institute of Peace - http://www.usip.org/
West Africa Network for Peacebuilding - http://www.wanep.org/
States and Governments
Governments on the WWW - http://www.gksoft.com/govt/
GovSpot – http://www.govspot.com/categories/worldgovernment.htm
International organizations
Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) – http://www.un.org
Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo – http://www.undp.org/
Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente – http://www.pnuma.org/
Organismo Internacional para la Energía Atómica - http://www.iaea.org/
Organización Mundial de la Salud – http://www.who.int/
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) - http://www.nato.int/
Organización para la Seguridad y la Cooperación en Europa – http://www.osce.org
Unión Europea (UE) – http://europa.eu
Europol – http://www.europol.net/
Interpol – http://www.interpol.int/
6.3.2. Atlas, annuaries and general works
Gilbert Achcar et al. (dirs.), L’Atlas du Monde Diplomatique, París: Le Monde
Diplomatique, 2003.
Dan Smith, Atlas des guerres et des conflits dans le monde : Peuples, puissances
militaires, espoirs de paix, París: Autrement, 2003.
Anuario internacional del CIP, Madrid: Centro de Investigación para la Paz.
SIPRI Yearbook, Londres: Oxford University Press.
Planet in Peril: An Atlas of Current Threats to People and the Environment, Nova
York: Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente, 2006.
One Planet Many People: Atlas of our Changing Environment, Nueva York: Programa
de Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente, 2006.
Jean-Marc Balencie y Arnaud de La Grange (dirs.), Les nouveaux mondes rebelles:
Conflits, contestations, terrorismes, París: Éditions Michalon, 2005.
H. K. Tillema, International Armed Conflicts Since 1945. A Bibliographic Handbook of
Wars and Military Interventions, Boulder Co.: Westview Press, 1991.
6.3.3. Specialized journals
Estudios de Política Exterior
Foreign Affairs
International Organization
International Politics
International Security
International Studies Quarterly
International Studies Review
Journal of Conflict Resolution
Journal of International Affairs
Journal of Peace Research
Journal of Strategic Studies
Millennium: Journal of International Studies
Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs
Peace and Conflict Studies
Review of International Studies
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
Survival: Global Politics and Strategy
World Politics
6.3.4. Documentaries and movies
Suggested documentaries
Fog of War (Rumores de guerra), Dir.: Errol Morris, Sony Pictures Classic, 2003.
Houston, We Have a Problem, Dir: Nicole Torre, Prod: New Angle, 2009.
Powerful: Energy for Everyone, Dir: David Chernushenko, Prod: Living Lightly
Productions / Quiet Revolution Pictures, 2010.
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear, Dir: Adam Curtis,
Prod: Adam Curtis / British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 2004.
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dir: Steven
Okazaki, Prod: Farallon Films, 2007.
Why We Fight, Dir.: Eugene Jareckl, BBC / Arte / Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, 2005.
An Inconvenient Truth (Una verdad incómoda), Dir.: Davis Guggenheim, Prod.:
Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, Laurie David, 2006.
Worse than War, Dir: Mike DeWitt, Prod: JTN Productions, 2009.
Suggested movies
Paths of Glory (Senderos de gloria), Dir.: Stanley Kubrick, Prod.: MDM, 1957.
Traffic, Dir.: Steven Soderbergh, Prod.: Richard Solomon / Mike Newell /
Cameron Jones, 2000.
No Man’s Land (En tierra de nadie), Dir.: Danis Tanovic, 2001.
Path to War (Camino a la guerra), Dir.: John Frankenheimer, Prod.: Guy Riedel /
Barry Levinson / Cary Brokaw, 2002.
Hotel Rwanda, Dir.: Terry George, Prod.: Lions Gate Films / United Artists, 2004.
Lord of War (El señor de la guerra), Dir.: Andrew Niccol, Prod.: Nicolas Cage /
Chris Roberts / Andreas Grosch, 2005.
Sometimes in April, Dir.: Raoul Peck, Prod.: Raoul Peck / Joel Stillerman, 2005.
Syriana, Dir.: Stephen Gaghan, Prod.: Warner, 2005.
Shooting Dogs, Dir: Michael Caton-Jones, Prod: CrossDay Productions / ARTE /
BBC Films, 2005.