Current Issues in CSS - JPM138

• Title: Current Issues in CSS
• Guaranteed by: Department of International Relations (23-KMV)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2023 to 2023
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/1, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unlimited (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Dr. Linda Monsees
• Teacher(s): Dr. Linda Monsees
• Is complex co-requisite for: JPM948

Annotation

Last update: Dr. Linda Monsees (22.08.2023)

The seminar starts in the 2nd week of the semester.

This course introduces contemporary issues in Critical Studies following the assumption that many contemporary security threats work through dispersed and decentered practices; this means that they are present in everyday practices and do not necessarily revolve around national security politics and institutions. This observation has methodological as well as normative consequences of how we need to approach the study of security. Questions of how to study how the everyday is shot through with security practices or how questions of justice and democracy are interlinked with security politics are thus central to this course.

Aim of the course

Last update: Dr. Linda Monsees (22.08.2023)

This short course on security studies follows two aims. First, it introduces students to debates in European Security Studies and main concepts, ideas and distinctions that were influential over the past two decades and influence scholarship today. Second, we will practice a set of academic skills such as understanding academic arguments, presenting arguments and critically assessing academic positions.

Literature

Last update: Dr. Linda Monsees (22.08.2023)

 

 

Huysmans, Jef. 2014. Security Unbound: Enacting Democratic Limits. Critical Issues in Global Politics. London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Chapter 1 and 2.

Andreas Papamichail. 2023. Reinscribing global hierarchies: COVID–19, racial capitalism and the liberal international order, International Affairs,  99 (4) 1673–1691.

Barkawi, Tarek, & Laffey, Mark. 2006. The Postcolonial Moment in Security Studies. Review of International Studies, 32 (2), 329–352.

Mitzen, Jennifer. 2006. Ontological Security in World Politics: State Identity and the Security Dilemma. European Journal of International Relations, 12 (3), 341–370.

Solomon, Ty. 2018. Ontological Security, Circulations of Affect, and the Arab Spring’. Journal of International Relations and Development 21 (4), 934–58.

Aradau, Claudia, and Tobias Blanke. 2015. ‘The (Big) Data-Security Assemblage: Knowledge and Critique’. Big Data & Society 2 (2) n.pgn.

Anne Roemer-Mahler & Stefan Elbe. 2016. The race for Ebola drugs:pharmaceuticals, security and global health governance, Third World Quarterly, 37 (3), 487-506.

Teaching methods

Last update: Dr. Linda Monsees (12.09.2023)

The class will be mostly based on plenary debates, group work and small individual assignments. The seminar is thus best for students wanting to attend in person and not via Teams as there wont be many lecture components.