International security 2104-M-Z1BEMI

1-2. Security Studies. Concept of security in international relations

- Evoulution of security studies

- definitions and main typologies

- Cold-War (realist) paradigm of security

- Post-Cold War evolution of the security paradigm. Concept of securitization

- Models of international security order

3-4. Role of military power in international politics; current global military balance. Contemporary armed conflicts

- understanding of power in IR (hard, soft, smart power)

- armed forces as a mean of foreign policy – current importance

- global military balance in contemporary world

- Revolution in Military Affairs

- polarization in contemporary world - unipolarity, multipolarity or non-polarity

- current armed conflicts – definitions and typologies

- scope, frequency and intensity of post-Cold War armed conflicts

- characteristics of contemporary armed conflicts

- privatisation of violence (issue of Private Military Companies) and economy of war (warlordism, resource wars)

6-8. International Security Institutions

Universal collective security system – UN

- context and genesis

- UN charter, organisational structure, mechanisms and forms of activities

- peacekeeping operations

- UN sanctions – role in security building

- other forms of UN activities In security sphere

Politico-military alliances (NATO) Układy sojusznicze - NATO

- alliances – definitions and typologies

- NATO – Washington treaty, organisational structure (main bodies), evolution until the end of Cold War

- Evolution after the Cold War

- Current problems and challenges (out-of-area operations, military transformation, strategic evolution)

- Poland in NATO

European security institutions – EU, OSCE, CIS, other

- Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP EU) – genesis, current structure and scope, main missions, future evolution;

- Organization of Security and Defence In Europe (OSCE) – history, current structure, main activities and problems, future evolution

- Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) – history, current structure, activities and challenges, future prospects

- sub-regional structures (Visegrad Group, Baltic Sea Council, others)

International Securoity Institutions in: America, Africa and Asia

WMD proliferation, arms control and disarmament

10. Asymmetric threats I – terrorism

- definitions and typologies of terrorism

- specificity of contemporary international terrorism on motivational level

- evolution of contemporary terrorism on organizational level (structures, financing) and in operational sphere (means and tactics of attacks, including suicide terrorism)

- terrorism – assessment of the threat in local, regional and global perspective

11. Asymmetric threats II – transantional organised crime and challenges for cybersecurity

- definition of transnational crime and specificity of its impact on state security

- drug production and trafficking as a security challenge

- maritime piracy – scale of the problem

- other forms of transnational crime – impact on international and state security

- cybersecurity threats

12. Non-military threats and challenges I – economic and energy security

- definition of economic security

- strategies of economic security

- energy security – definitions, current challenges, strategies of energy security

- energy security of Poland

13. Non-military threats and challenges II – societal, cultural and ecological challenges

- definitions and typologies

- demographic changes as challenges to international/state security (unbalanced demographic growth, Word ageing, migrations)

- challenges to cultural identity as a problem of security Policy

- pandemics as security threat

- climate change and others ecological challenges to state and international security