Module 5

The Changing Nature of Security Governance

MODULE Materials

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There are no formal lectures this term and instead, our meetings will be more of a seminar style. They are primarily based on your issue presentations and discussions. As discussed and as outlined HERE, your presentations will be pre-recorded with a link to your presentation posted on the OWL FORUMS HERE BY FRIDAY so that all of your classmates can view it before class. Class time will be devoted to your discussions and other things like comments from me and the occasional guest speaker.

THE SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATION ASSIGNMENTS CAN BE FOUND HERE

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Week 12- Jan 10

New Wars and New Threats

Jarvis and Holland textbook: Chapter 5, 6
Narang, Vipin (2105) "Nuclear Strategies of Emerging Nuclear Powers: North Korea and Iran." The Washington Quarterly 38.1: 73-9
Kropatcheva, E. (2014). NATO–Russia Relations and the Chinese Factor: An Ignored Variable. Politics, 34(2), 149-160

SLIDE DECK FOR THIS WEEK IS HERE

(Note: this is the last slide deck for the class until the end)

RECORDING OF JAN 10 ZOOM MEETING HERE.

Week 13- Jan 17

New Security Actors I: PMCs and the Defence Manufacturing Sector

ISSUE PRESENTATIONS- LAV Sales; GardaWorld in Afghanistan;

Blackwater in Nissour Square

Osakwe, C., & Umoh, U. E. (2014). Private military contractors, war crimes and international humanitarian law. Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies, 42(1), 64-79.
Engler, Yves (2021)- https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/10/canadian-private-security-military-contractor-companies-afghanistan-war-mercenaries-david-lavery
Singer, P.W. (2005) “Outsourcing War.” Foreign Affairs Vol. 84 (2) pp. 119-132
Abrahamsen, Rita and Michael C. Williams, Theory Talks on Private Security

Week 14- Jan 24

New Security Actors II: Think Tanks, Civil Society and New Media

ISSUE PRESENTATIONS- 'Facebook Files' whistleblower; ICAN;

Peacewomen.org and UNSCR 1325

Abelson, D. E. (2014). Old world, new world: the evolution and influence of foreign affairs think-tanks. International Affairs, 90(1), 125-142
Spearin, C. (2008). Private, armed and humanitarian? States, NGOs, international private security companies and shifting humanitarianism. Security Dialogue, 39(4), 363-382.
Shirky, C. (2011). The political power of social media: Technology, the public sphere, and political change. Foreign affairs, 28-41

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