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Global Security in Transformation (STG-MA-ECR-GST)

STG-MA-ECR-GST

Description

The course focuses on the phenomenon of order transformation. Order transformation is perhaps one of the most disruptive types of change in international relations, which is not only experienced as deeply unsettling but which is also associated with contestation and conflict and often war. Despite its significance, order transformation is difficult to detect as it starts with small, seemingly banal changes and contestations, whose importance only become apparent in hindsight. Yet order transformation affects all levels of policymaking, institutions and established social practices with dire consequences for security politics and governance. 

The course approaches global security from the perspective of transformation of the global rules-based order (GRBO) and the crisis of the liberal international order (LIO). The course focuses on how resilient institutions and forms of global, regional and transnational governance might be established in the face of emerging security challenges and mounting complexity and connectivity.  

The course facilitates the development of the students’ conceptual and analytical tools for the study of the global security environment in times of transformation, disorder and the return of geopolitics. It combines a conceptual and theoretical part with a more policy focused part emphasizing how the current transformation affects policy, people, and practice in a selection of specific cases. The course ends with a foresight analysis workshop in which participants will be introduced to the method of foresight analysis and test the method on a topical security challenge.

The students will gain both topical insights and awareness about the current security environment and a preparedness to approach them with appropriate scholarly concepts and theory. The themes to be covered include the nature of global and international order and its transformation, resilience as a concept and policy and as key to the governance of complexity, energy security, EU and NATO in the new security environment, and foresight analysis as a key aspect of anticipatory governance.

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