Fall 2018 - IS 808 G100
Special Topics in Governance and Conflict (4)
Class Number: 8233
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 4 – Dec 3, 2018: Thu, 8:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Vancouver
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Instructor:
Nicole Jackson
njj@sfu.ca
1 778 782-8424
Description
COURSE DETAILS:
This course that will focus on how states engage within the new global security architecture. Taking a comparative perspective, we will investigate state actors within old and new security fora, including coalitions, codes of conduct, contact groups, regional and bilateral forums. It has been increasingly fashionable to discuss the revanche of geopolitics and the end of global governance, but there are still a host of fora where norms are debated and agendas and programs are introduced on a variety of security issues. The security issues that we examine will be determined by student interest but will include those in the so-called contested ‘global commons’: land, maritime, air, cyber/information space, and outerspace.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
This course aims to familiarize students with two academic literatures – foreign policy analysis and global governance and it will help them to identify and evaluate links between the two. Students will learn to critically assess the roles of global security agents (or “global governors”) and to analyze whether and how norms, diplomacy, power and cooperation have evolved within a host of security fora.
Grading
- Participation, including critical reading outlines and major oral presentations 40%
- Research essay, including proposal and first draft 60%
NOTES:
The research essay will be 25 pages. Students will hand in a first draft of their paper which will be constructively critiqued by the group before handing in the final version.
***Graduate students will have extra requirements not noted on this outline/to be provided in class.
This is a seminar course in which students will be required to actively participate each class. There will be mini and major oral presentations.
Course Evaluation may change depending on student numbers.
Students will be required to submit their written assignments to Turnitin.com in order to receive credit for the assignments and for the course.
The School for International Studies strictly enforces the University's policies regarding plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty. Information about these policies can be found at: http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/teaching.html.
Materials
RECOMMENDED READING:
Patrick Cottrell: The Evolution and Legitimacy of International Security Institutions, CUP, 2016 Ed
Andrew Cooper, Global Governance and Diplomacy. Worlds Apart? Palgrave, 2008 Chris Hill, The National Interest in Question: Foreign Policy in Multicultural Societies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Chris Hill, The Changing Politics of Foreign Policy, 2002 Kjell Engelbrekt, High Table Diplomacy, Reshaping International Security Institutions, 2016
Bruce D Jones, The Risk Pivot; Great Powers, International Security and the Energy Revolution, 2014 Fredrik Bynander, Stefano Guzzini Eds, Rethinking Foreign Policy, Routledge 2013
Knud Erik Jørgensen, Werner Link, Gunther Hellmann Theorizing Foreign Policy in a Globalized World, Palgrave, 2015 Ed Christopher Daase, Rethinking Security Governance, The Problem of Unintended Consequences, 2010
Ed Scott Jasper, Conflict and Cooperation in the Commons, 2012
Shahar Hameiri and Lee Jones Governing borderless threats: non traditional security, CUP 2015
Abraham Denmark et.al, Contested Commons; The Future of American Power Center for New American Security, 2010 Ed
James Sperling, Handbook of Governance and Security, 2014
Deborah Avent and Oliver Westerwinter, The New Power Politics; Networks and Transnational Security Governance, OUP, 2016.
Graduate Studies Notes:
Important dates and deadlines for graduate students are found here: http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/current/important_dates/guidelines.html. The deadline to drop a course with a 100% refund is the end of week 2. The deadline to drop with no notation on your transcript is the end of week 3.
Registrar Notes:
SFU’s Academic Integrity web site http://students.sfu.ca/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.
Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the University community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the University. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the University. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html
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