Module Identifier | IPM0760 | ||
Module Title | CRITICAL SECURITY STUDIES | ||
Academic Year | 2000/2001 | ||
Co-ordinator | Professor Ken Booth | ||
Semester | Semester 2 (Taught over 2 semesters) | ||
Other staff | Dr Mike Williams, Dr Richard Jones | ||
Course delivery | Seminar | 1 x two hour seminar per week over two semesters | |
Assessment | Exam | 3 Hours | 50% |
Essay | 1 x 2,500 word | 15% | |
Report | 1 x 2,500 word | 15% | |
Course work | 1 x 1,000 word journalistic piece 10% 1 x 2,000 word book review 10% | 20% |
Aims and objectives
This module is the core module for students on the MScEcon Degree or Diploma (S Pathway) in Security Studies.
This module explores the `critical' turn in thinking about security. In particular, it addresses the broader security agenda of contemporary world politics; the philosophical assumptions of different world views about security, community and emancipation; and the implication of traditional versus alternative practices of security in different regions, institutions and issue-areas.