Geostrategy and International Security

Recommended Prerequisites

Good English skills. Knowledge of techniques and styles of academic writing.

Teaching Methods

The seminar-based format presupposes active student participation. After a general theoretical framework of each topic by the lecturer, classes consist on the critical analysis and discussion of key texts and case studies.

Learning Outcomes

Main learning outcome:

- Familiarize students with the main topics and the evolution of geostrategy and international security in the 21^st century, allowing students to understand multi-cultural environments and the underlying complexities and ethics of business in a global setting.

 Specific learning outcomes and skills:

- Understand and apply concepts of geostrategy and security studies;

- Identify the main topics of international security and geostrategy in the 21^st century;

- Study the evolution and the regional dimension of these topics;

- Assess the impact of that evolution on political and economic decision-making;

- Critically analyze the relevance and limitations of this frame of analysis within the existing international context.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Geostrategy and security: concepts and trends

2. The main topics of international security

- Great powers and the international order

- War and peace in the 21^st century

- Regional and security complexes

3. Critical perspectives of security and geostrategy

Head Lecturer(s)

Teresa Paula Almeida Cravo

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Written works. : 100.0%

Bibliography

Teles Fazendeiro, Bernardo. "Wartime Is Peacetime: Undeclared Armed Conflict in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries." International Studies Review 23.4 (2021): 2079-2089.

Ikenberry, G. John. A world safe for democracy: Liberal internationalism and the crises of global order. Yale University Press, 2020.

Cooley, Alexander, and Daniel Nexon. Exit from hegemony: The unraveling of the American global order. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Krieg, Andreas, and Jean-Marc Rickli. Surrogate warfare: the transformation of war in the twenty-first century. Georgetown University Press, 2019.

Freedman, Lawrence. Strategy: A history. Oxford University Press, 2015.

Acharya, Amitav. The making of Southeast Asia: International relations of a region. Cornell University Press, 2013

Buzan, Barry, et al. Regions and powers: the structure of international security. Vol. 91. Cambridge University Press, 2003.