Globalization and Security

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1 Globalization and Security CREDIT INSTRUCTOR Seo-Hyun Park OFFICE TBA OFFICE HOURS TBA TIME TBA CLASSROOM LOCATION TBA * Please leave the fields blank which haven t been decided yet. [COURSE INFORMATION] This course explores the various ways in which globalization is (re)shaping the concept and practice of international as well as national security. Throughout the course, we will examine the major concepts and issues in the globalization of security from both a theoretical and empirical standpoint. The first part of the course introduces the changing scope of security in COURSE DESCRIPTION the context of globalization. The second section examines a key aspect of globalization, & GOALS interdependence, and its impact on security. The third and fourth sections deal with the changing nature of conflict and prospects for cooperation in the context of globalization. Topics for discussion include economic interdependence and war, migration and national security, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and asymmetric warfare, defense privatization, economic sanctions, and collective security. PREREQUISITE Introduction to International Relations recommended. COURSE REQUIREMENTS Book review assignment (15%) Mid-term exam (25%) GRADING POLICY TEXTS & S INSTRUCTOR S PROFILE Final exam (30%) Discussion memo (15%) Class attendance & participation (15%) Peter Andreas, Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). America/dp/ /ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid= &sr=8-1&keywords=smuggler+nation P. W. Singer, Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21 st Century (New York: Penguin Books, 2009). Conflict/dp/ /ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid= &sr=8-1&keywords=wired+for+war * It is recommended that you purchase the above books through online retailers, such as Amazon.com, given that they may not be available at the Yonsei campus bookstore. Additional journal articles listed on syllabus will be made available through a course reading packet. Seo-Hyun Park is an assistant professor in the Department of Government and Law at

2 Lafayette College. Her research interests include national identity politics, state sovereignty, military alliances, and globalization and security, with a regional focus on East Asia. Her work has appeared in the Review of International Studies, Journal of East Asian Studies, Strategic Studies Quarterly, and the Chinese Journal of International Politics. Park received her Ph.D from Cornell University and was a research fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University. Park was a recipient of the Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, the Mellon Fellowship, the Cornell University Einaudi Center s Carpenter Fellowship, and has conducted research in Japan and South Korea as a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo and at Yonsei University. [WEEKLY SCHEDULE] * Your detailed explanation would be very helpful for prospective students to get a pre-approval for credit-transfer from their home university in advance. 1 Topic 1: Introduction Topic 2: (Re)Conceptualizing Security in an Era of Globalization I Ellen L. Frost, Globalization and National Security: A Strategic Agenda, in Richard L. Kugler and Ellen L. Frost, eds., The Global Century: Globalization and National Security (Washington, D.C.: NDU Press, 2001), pp Lynn E. Davis, Globalization s Security Implications, RAND Issue Paper, Marc Lynch, After Egypt: The Limits and Promise of Online Challenges to the Authoritarian Arab State, Perspectives on Politics 9, 2 (June 2011): Fiona Adamson, Displacement, Diaspora Mobilization, and Transnational Cycles of Political Violence, in John Tirman, ed., Maze of Fear: Security and Migration after September 11 th (New York: New Press, 2004), pp

3 2 Topic 3: (Re)Conceptualizing Security in an Era of Globalization II Topic 4: Review & Discussion Book review assignment Moisés Naím, Mafia States, Foreign Affairs 91, 3 (May/June 2012). Peter Andreas, Smuggling Nation 3 4 Topic 5: Terrorism and Asymmetric Warfare Topic 6: Weapons Proliferation Topic 7: New Security Issues NATO Parliamentary Assembly, The Growing Threat of Piracy to Regional and Global Security. Topic 8: Economic Interdependence and War Student discussion memos Midterm exam Martha Crenshaw, Explaining Terrorism (Routledge, 2011), pp , Audrey Kurth Cronin, How Al-Qaeda Ends: The Relevance and Irrelevance of History, in How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009), Kenneth N. Waltz, Why Iran Should Get the Bomb, Foreign Affairs 91, 4 (July/August 2012). Jacques E. C. Hymans, Botching the Bomb, Foreign Affairs 91, 3 (May/June 2012). C. J. Chivers, Small Arms, Big Problems, Foreign Affairs 90, 1 (January/February 2011). Roland Paris, Human Securit y: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air? in New Global Dangers, pp Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict, in New Global Dangers, pp Stephen Brooks, Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict

4 Topic 9: Changing Patterns of Organized Violence I Student discussion memos (Princeton University Press, 2007), Chapter 1 (pp. 1-13). Dale Copeland, Economic Interdependence and the Future of U.S.-China Relations, in G. John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno, eds., International Relations Theory and the Asia- Pacific, ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), pp Mary Kaldor, New & Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001), pp P. W. Singer, Corporate Warriors: The Rise of Privatized Military Industry and Its Week 10: Changing Patterns of Organized Violence II Ramifications for International Security, in New Global Topic 11: Sanctions and Economic Statecraft Final exam Dangers, pp Singer, Wired for War George A. Lopez and David Cortright, Containing Iraq: Sanctions Worked, Foreign Affairs 83, 4 (July/August 2004): Erica Downs and Suzanne Maloney, Getting China to Sanction Iran, Foreign Affairs 6 Topic 12: Global Institutions & Collective Security 90, 2 (March/April 2011). R. Charli Carpenter, Governing the Global Agenda: Gatekeepers and Issue Adoption in Transnational Advocacy Networks, in Deborah D. Avant et al., eds., Who Governs the Globe? (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp

5 Jon Western and Joshua S. Goldstein, Humanitarian Intervention Comes of Age: Lessons From Somalia to Libya, Foreign Affairs 90, 6 (November/December 2011):