To enable you to develop a good grounding and advanced appreciation of key concepts, theories, historical and contextual perspectives and analytical frameworks for examining the causes and dynamics of transnational problems and challenges, and also for examining the development, implementation and effectiveness of international responses to such problems. To enable you to examine at an advanced level processes of ‘securitisation’ and ‘de-securitisation’ of transnational problems, and the significance of these processes for the politics of mobilising effective and sustainable international responses. To enable you to achieve a detailed and advanced understanding of selected major contemporary transnational problems, and responses to them - applying and gaining experience with the relevant concepts and analytical frameworks. The selected transnational problems to be examined in detail may vary each year, from a list including: transnational trafficking and crime; refugees and migrant flows; international spread of sensitive technologies or weapons; specific global environmental problems; or major complex humanitarian disasters.
Outline Syllabus
Grounding in key concepts, perspectives and analytical frameworks for examining transnational problems and responses to them; including roles and significance of transnational actors and processes in international relations and in security studies, and development of strategies and institutions for governance of such transnational challenges.
Explore and analyse the significance of processes of ‘securitisation’ and ‘de-securitisation’ of transnational problems.. This will be done generically, and with reference to a range of empirical cases and examples.
Detailed examination of 2 -3 selected major contemporary transnational problems, and international responses to them, applying the relevant concepts and analytical frameworks developed earlier in the module.
The selected transnational problems to be examined in detail may vary each year, from a list including: transnational trafficking and crime; refugees and migrant flows; international spread of sensitive technologies or weapons; specific global environmental problems; or major complex humanitarian disasters.