Willy Brandt School of Public Policy Master of Public Policy Summer Semester 2012 Theories of Security LG1/333, Tuesday, 16:00-18:00 (s.t.) Filipe dos Reis, M.A. Office LG1/161 Office Hours Monday 13:30-14:30 Telephone 0361/7374963 Fax 0361/7374969 E-mail Filipe.dos_Reis@uni-erfurt.de Course Description Written off for a long time and almost exclusively dwelling on the North American continent, the theoretical debate about the concept of security swept to Europe, recently, and became one of the most fascinating and innovative fields of research in International Relations (IR). The course aims to give an overview on this debate and consists of three parts. The first part discusses the historical origins and the evolution of international security studies and sheds light on its major traditional theories (e.g. Realism, Liberalism). The second part introduces new, mainly continental-based theories of security which can be found in the realm of Critical Security Studies, the Copenhagen School or Poststructuralism. The third part examines practices of security in different fields such as the state, private security, health, migration and international law. Workload / Credits Upon successful completion of the course, students are awarded 3 (ECTS). According to examination rules Art.12 (1), students must register for the course within the first four weeks of class to be eligible to earn these credits. Grading Students will be graded based on the following assignments in accordance to the examinations rules Art.11 (5). Oral presentation with handout (1/3) and paper (2/3) Assessment guidelines A term paper should have a length of about 15 pages and include: an abstract, table of contents, scientific discussion, and a bibliography. 1
Relevant parts of the assigned literature are to be used in the paper, which is due on 20.08.2012. The paper should be sent to Filipe.dos_Reis@uni-erfurt.de and handed in at the main office. If you do not hand/send in your paper before the deadline, your paper will be regarded as failed (5.0). In the event that a student fails the examination, the form and date of the re-examination will be decided upon by the lecturer. Written papers are to have the following format: 1 ½ line spacing Times New Roman / Arial font 2.5cm (default) margins on all sides Referencing is your personal choice, just be consistent. Attendance According to the examination and study rules for the MPP program [Art. 16 (2)], missing more than two classes in a course without an acceptable excuse automatically results in the student receiving a failing grade (5.0) for the class. If you have to miss a class, please send an e-mail stating the reason for your absence to both the instructor and publicpolicy@uni-erfurt.de prior to the session in question. Academic Conduct Plagiarism is using others ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information. This includes citing written words as well as graphs and statistics without giving proper credit. Plagiarism is a form of academic dishonesty and will therefore not be tolerated. According to the examination rules Act 17(3) and the Code of Conduct which students signed at the start of their studies, plagiarism will automatically result in the student failing (5.0) the course. Disability Services The Brandt School also provides support for students with disabilities. If this situation applies to you, please contact your lecturer as soon as possible so that s/he can make the necessary arrangements for you. Literature Barry, Buzan/Lene Hansen 2009: The Evolution of International Security Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2
Schedule and Session Overview 1 17.04.2012 Introduction Part I: Traditional Theories of Security 2 24.04.2012 Overview; Realism and Liberalism Buzan, Barry/Lene Hansen 2009: The Evolution of International Security Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Ch 1+2, 1-37. Buzan, Barry/Lene Hansen 2009: The Evolution of International Security Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Ch 6, 156-86. Baldwin, David A. 1997: The Concept of Security, in: Review of International Studies 23:1, 5-26. Herz, John 1950: Idealist Internationalism and the Security Dilemma, in: World Politics 2:2, 157-80. Huysmans, Jef 1998: Security! What Do You Mean?: From Concept to Thick Signifier, in: European Journal of International Relations 4:2, 266-255. Walt, Stephen 1991: The Renaissance of Security Studies, in: International Studies Quarterly, 35:2, 211-39. 01.05.2012 No class! Public holiday (Labor Day)! 3 08.05.2012 Republicanism Deudney, Daniel H. 2007: Bounding Power. Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, Ch 1, 27-60. Deudney, Daniel H. 2004: Publius Before Kant: Federal-Republican Security and Democratic Peace, in: European Journal of International Relations 10:3, 315-356. Adler, Emanuel/Michael Barnett (eds.) 1998: Security Communities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Katzenstein, Peter (ed.) 1996: The Culture of National Security. Norms and Identity in World Politics. Columbia University Press: New York, NY. Part II: New Theories of Security 4 15.05.2012 Overview; Critical Security Studies Waever, Ole 2004: Aberystwyth, Paris, Copenhagen. New Schools of Security Theory and their Origins between Core and Periperhy. Unpublished Manuscript. Booth, Ken 1997: Security and Self: Reflections of a Fallen Realist, in: Krause, Keith/Michael C. Williams (eds.): Critical Security Studies. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 83-121. Booth, Ken 1991: Security and Emancipation, in: Review of International Studies 17:4, 313-326. CASE 2006: Critical Approaches to Security in Europe: A Networked Manifesto, in: Security Dialog 37:4, 443-487. Peoples, Columba/Nick Vaughan-Williams 2010: Critical Security Studies. An Introduction. London: Routledge. Krause, Keith/Michael C. Williams (eds.) 1997: Critical Security Studies. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 3
5 22.05.2012 Securitization; Paris School Barry Buzan/Ole Waever/Jaap de Wilde 1998: Security: A New Framework. Boulder, CO: Lynn Rienner, 1-48 Bigo, Didier 2008: Security: A Field Left Fallow, in: Dillon, Michael (Ed.): Foucault on Politics, Security and War. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmilian, 93-114. Bigo, Didier 2006: Globalized (in)security: the Field and the Ban-Opticon in Illib-eral Practices of Liberal Regimes.. Bigo, Didier/ Anastassia Tsoukala. Paris: l Harmattan (http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/ conferences/muslims/bigo.pdf). De Larringa, Miguel/Marc G. Dourcet (eds.) 2010: Security and Global Governmentality: Globalization, Governance and the State. London: Routledge. Special issue on the politics of securitization 2011, in: Security Dialog 42:4-5. Waever, Ole 1995: Securitization and Desecuritization, in: Lipschutz, Ronnie D. (Ed.): On Security. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 46-86. 6 29.05.2012 Poststructuralism; Feminism Campbell, David 1998: MetaBosnia: Narratives of the Bosnian War, in: Review of International Studies 24:2, 261-281. Cohn, Carol 1987: Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals, in: Signs: 12:4, 687-718. Wight, Colin 1999: MetaCampbell: The epistemological problem of perspectivism, in: Review of International Studies 25:2, 311-316. Campbell, David 1999: Contra Wight: the errors of a premature writing, in: Review of International Studies 25:2, 317-321. Campbell, David 1998: Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity. 2nd ed. Minneaplois, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Hansen, Lene 2006: Security as Practice: Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War. London: Routledge. Sylvester, Christine 2007: Anatomy of a Footnote, in: Security Dialogue 38:4, 547-558. Tickner, J. Ann 1992: Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Part III: Practices of Security 7 05.06.2012 Military Security Buzan, Barry/Ole Waever/Jaap de Wilde 1998: Security: A New Framework. Boulder, CO:Lynne Rienner, 49-70. Buzan, Barry/Lene Hansen 2009: The Evolution of International Security Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 226-255. Forum 2001/2: The Threat of Terrorism: U.S. Military Policy after September 11, in: International Security 26:3, 5-78. Waltz, Kenneth N. 1979: Theory of International Politics. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. Wasinski, Christophe 2011: On making war possible: Soldiers, strategy, and military grand narrative, in: Security Dialogue 42:1, 57-76. 8 12.06.2012 Private Security Abrahamsen, Rita/Michael C. Williams 2009: Security Beyond the State: Global Security Assemblages in International Politics, in: International Political Sociology 3:1, 1-17. 4
Abrahamsen, Rita/Michael C. Williams 2011: Security Beyond the State: Private Security in International Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Abrahamsen, Rita/Michael C. Williams 2007: The Privatisation and Globalisation of Security in Africa, International Relations 21:2 (= Special Issue). Avant, Deborah 2005: The Market of Force. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forum: Private Security Companies and International Relations (2012), in: Millennium 40:2, 303-388. 9 19.06.2012 Economic Security Buzan, Barry/Ole Waever/Jaap de Wilde 1998: Security: A New Framework. Boulder, CO:Lynne Rienner, 95-117. Aitken, Rob 2006: Performativity, Popular Finance and Security in the Global Political Economy, in: de Goede, Marieke (Ed.): International Political Economy and Poststructural Politics. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmilian, 77-96. Forum 2011: The Global Governance of Security and Finance, in: Security Dialogue 42:2. 10 26.06.2012 Security and International Law Kessler, Oliver/Wouter Werner 2008: Extrajudicial Killing as Risk Management, in: Security Dialogue 39:2-3, 289-308. Armstrong, David/Theo Farrell/Hélène Lambert 2007: International Law and International Relations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 117-150. Cohn, Jean L. 2008: A Global State of Emergency or the Further Constitutionalization of International Law: A Pluralist Approach, in: Constellations 15:4, 456-484 Koskenniemi, Martti 1996: The Place of Law in Collective Security, in: Michigan Journal of International Law 17, 455-490. Koskenniemi, Martti 2002: The Lady Doth Protest too Much: Kosovo, and the Turn to Ethics in International Law, in: The Modern Law Review 65, 159-175. 11 03.07.2012 Health Elbe, Stefan 2006: Schould HIV/AIDS Be Securitized? The Ethical Dilemmas of Linking HIV/AIDS and Security, in: International Studies Quarterly 50, 119-144. Elbe, Stefan 2010: Security and Global Health. Towards the Medicalization of Insecurity. Cambridge: Polity. Pereira, Ricardo 2008: Processes of Securitization of Infectious Diseases and Western Hegemonic Power: A Historical Political Analysis, in: Global Health Governance 2:1 (http://blogs.shu.edu/ghg/files/2011/10/ Pereira_-Processes-of-Securitization-of-Infectious-Diseases-and-Western-Hegemonic- Power_Spring-2008.pdf) Seckinelgin,Hakan/Joseph Bigirumwami/Jill Morris 2010: Securitization of HIV/AIDS in context: Gendered Vulnerability in Burundi, in: Security Dialogue 41:5, 515-535. 12 10.07.2012 Migration Doty, Roxanne Lynn 2007: States of Exception on the Mexico-U.S. Border: Security, Deciosons, and Civilian Border Patrols, in: International Political Sociology 1:2, 113-137. 5
Bigo, Didier 2002: Security and Immigration: Towards a Critique of the Governmentality of Unease, in: Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 27:1, 63-92. Guild, Elspeth 2009: Security and Migration in the 21st Cenury. Cambridge: Polity. Huysmans, Jef 2000: The European Union and the Securitization of Migration, in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 38:5, 751-777. Peoples, Columba/Nick Vaughan Williams 2010: Critical Security Studies. An Introduction. London: Routledge, 134-148. 13 17.07.2012 Final Discussion 6