IR328 INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Course Code: |
3140328 |
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
ECTS Credit: |
6.0 |
Department: |
International Relations |
Language of Instruction: |
English |
Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
Course Coordinator: |
Lecturer Dr. ONUR ERPUL |
Offered Semester: |
Once in several years. |
Course Content
This course examines the range of security threats that the international community faces at the beginning of the new millennium and discusses, both at the level of discourse and the level of practice, how the international community is responding to the persistence of such threats as nuclear proliferation and terrorism and the emergence of new ones such as chemical and biological warfare, pandemics and mass migration. Special emphasis will be placed on comparing and contrasting traditional security paradigm with newly emerging ones, as well as their complex interaction.