SECURITY STUDIES

Course: Associate Professor Valentin Naumescu, PhD Seminar: Associate Professor Valentin Naumescu, PhD

Syllabus Course topics: 1. Defining security: from hard security to soft security 2. Copenhagen School of European Security 3. Risks and threats to global and regional security 4. Hard security (military threats to security): NATO, Cold War, Atlantic order 5. The end of the Cold War and the Euro-Atlantic integration (the Space of Western security) 6. From U.S. hegemony to a multipolar world 7. Economic threats to security 8. Environment threats to security 9. Societal (social identity) security 10. Health threats to security 11. Natural threats to security 12. Accidental threats to security 13. Criminal threats to security 14. Regional conflicts and the need of effective international institutions

Minimal Bibliography: Peter Hough, Understanding Global Security, 2nd edition, London and New York, Routledge, 2008

Veaceslav Berbeca, Tim Bird, Stuart Croft, Sandra Dungaciu, Teodor Melecanu, Dan Moga, Valentin Naumescu, Simona Neumann, George Poede, Dana Radler, Studii de securitate, Bucureti: Editura Cavallioti, 2005

Seminar topics (specific chapters will be indicated for reading): 1. The concept of security 2. From hard to soft: changes in security studies 3. What kind of threats to global and regional security? 4. The Cold War, NATO and the Warsaw Pact 5. The history of East Central European integration in the Euro-Atlantic system of institutions 6. The American unipolarity 7. Economic crises and human security 8. Environment threats and the green international movement 9. Social, culture and identity issues 10. Pandemias 11. Natural disasters 12. Criminality and new threats to security 13. Regional conflicts and a changing global order 14. Romanian security policies

Grading system:

Seminar: 0-4p (0-2.5p for the collective essay and 0-1.5p for the consistence of seminar activities) Oral examination: 0-6p.